Vulgar words in Vice in its Proper Shape - Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several - Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals - Which They Most Resemble In Disposition. (Page 1)
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_Of the wonderful Transmigration of_ Jack Idle _into the body of an ass_.
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The first room we were conducted into was the habitation of a little ass, who, as soon as we entered the place, began to bray, and kick up his heels, at a most violent rate; but, upon the appearance of Mr. Wiseman (which I have before observed was the Bramin's name) he thought proper to compose himself, and stood as quiet as a lamb.--"This stubborn little beast said our kind conductor, is now animated by the soul of the late master _Idle_.
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If the meanest and most dirty boy in the neighbourhood was in want of a companion, or rather a tool, to assist him in his mischievous pranks, he had nothing to do but to make his application to _Jack Idle_; for foolish Jack (as they truly called him) was at the beck of every mischievous rogue; and when the mischief was done, he was always left, like a stupid ass as he was, to bear the burden of it.
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It cannot therefore be considered as a miracle, notwithstanding the extraordinary care and expense which his friends bestowed upon his education, that he always continued a blockhead, and was such a perfect dunce at eleven years of age, that instead of being able to read and write as a young gentleman ought to do, he could scarcely tell his letters.