Vulgar words in The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History (Page 1)
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O but--Brother 'gainst brother!--'twas hard!--Now I come with a will To baste the false bastard of France, the hide of the tanyard and mill!
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_The hide of the tanyard_; See the story of Arlette or Herleva, the tanner's daughter, mother to William 'the Bastard.'
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Poor sweet maid of Domremy, In thine innocence secure, Heed not what men say of thee, The buffoon and his jest impure!
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_The buffoon_; Voltaire.
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The King's return seemed to the people the harbinger of a real liberty, instead of that bastard Commonwealth which had insulted them with its name' (Hallam: _Const.