Vulgar words in Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 (Page 1)

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Here is the final stanza of the pitiful doggerel with which Wharton boasted that he had "sung a king out of three kingdoms": There was an old prophecy found in a bog: Ireland shall be ruled by an ass and a dog; And now this prophecy is come to pass, For Talbot's the dog, and James is the ass.

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Why, what a damn'd fool you must be!

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