bawdry

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Volumes which not many years after, when a new system of affairs had occurred to supplant this long-idolised “order of chivalry,” Roger Ascham plainly asserted only taught “open manslaughter and bold bawdry.”

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The city of Bristol is but a great house of bawdry.”

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I am sorry that Hamlet’s line to the Player, “He’s for a jig, or a tale of bawdry, or else he sleeps,” has been cut out.

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Letters Swift wrote to his beloved "Stella" – Esther Johnson – and her companion, Rebecca Dingley, reveal in detail Swift's mixture of bawdry and baby talk.

From The Guardian

This will prove rare sport, to see how the poet's genius will grapple with this bawdry!

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