Vulgar words in Erasmus and the Age of Reformation (Page 1)
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He imagined that his father when a young man made love to a girl, a physician's daughter, in the hope of marrying her.
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Holbein, illustrating Erasmus, knows but of one representation of a fool: with a staff and ass's ears.
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He examined me, and being something of a clown said, 'I should not be afraid to sleep with you--and make love to you too, if you were a woman....' [Still another doctor is summoned but does not return as promised, sending his servant instead.]
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'not even the peeping of an ass is safe.'
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In court the potter, asked of what he complained, replied: 'Of the peeping of an ass.'