Vulgar words in Early English Alliterative Poems - in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century (Page 1)

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ass x 2 boner x 2

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blessed be þow," q{uod} þe burne, "so boner & þewed, & al haldeȝ i{n} þy honde, þe heuen & þe erþe, Bot for I haf þis talke tatȝ to non ille, Ȝif I mele a lyttel more þat mul am & askeȝ; 736 What if fyue faylen of fyfty þe nou{m}bre, & þe remnau{n}t be reken, how restes þy wylle?"

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[Sidenote: The child Christ was so clean that ox and ass worshipped him.]

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{Boner, Bonere,} good, B.

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The child Christ was so clean that ox and ass worshipped him.

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