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Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse 1660–1714 choose

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[UK] R. Wild ‘Iter Boreale’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State I 5: They’re sorry toys from a poor Levite’s pack.
at levite, n.
[UK] R. Wild ‘Iter Boreale’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State I 7: That lusty puss, the Good Old Cause, whose wits / Show’d Oliver such sport.
at puss, n.1
[UK] epigraph to Marvell ‘The Second Advice to a Painter’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I 35: The high-sho’d plowman, should he quit the land, / To take the pilot’s rudder in his hand.
at high-shoed, adj.
[UK] ‘Upon the Beadle’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) I 175: The Cyprian convent they attempt by storm, Which held out [...] Though kept but by the abbess and one maid.
at abbess, n.
[UK] ‘Haymarket Hectors’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I 168: Consulting his cazzo, he found it expedient / To engender Don Johns on Nell the comedian.
at catso, n.
[UK] ‘Upon the Beadle’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) I 175: The Cyprian convent they attempt by storm, Which held out [...] Though kept but by the abbess and one maid.
at convent, n.
[UK] ‘Haymarket Hectors’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I 169: And he, our amorous Jove, / Whilst she lay dry-bobb’d under, / To repair the defects of his love, / Must lend her his lightning and thunder.
at dry bob (n.) under dry, adj.1
[UK] ‘Upon the Beadle’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State 1 175: Their gen’rous fury, sprung from this just ground, / Because a nun of Whetstone prov’d unsound. [...] Brothers in arms, two more of Mars’s sons, / And both begot on Cytherean nuns.
at nun, n.
[UK] ‘Upon the Beadle’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I 175: Their gen’rous fury, sprung from this just ground, / Because a nun of Whetstone prov’d unsound. / Whetstone’s the place where many a duke and lord / Have on bare knees the Queen of Love ador’d.
at Whetstone Park deer (n.) under Whetstone Park, n.
[UK] ‘The Royal Buss’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I 263: Yet they made gods of better tools. / No altars then to plackets were, / No majesty by puss would swear.
at puss, n.1
[UK] ‘A Session of the Poets’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I 355: The poetess Aphra [i.e. Behn] next sho’d her sweet face / And swore by her poetry and her black ace.
at black ace (n.) under ace, n.
[UK] ‘Session of the Poets’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I 354: ‘Ballocks!’ cries Newport, ‘I hate that dull rogue.’.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] ‘Flatfoot the Gudgeon Taker’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1965) II 191: Two rev’rend aunts, renow’d in British story / For lust and drunkenness.
at aunt, n.
[UK] ‘Satire’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1965) II 291: This French hag’s pocky bum ... Although it’s both blind and dumb, It rules both Church and State.
at bum, n.1
[UK] ‘A Ballad of Sir Robert Peyton’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1965) II 310: A French butter’d bun of bawdy Whitehall.
at buttered bun, n.1
[UK] ‘Westminster Wedding’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1965) II 353: For left him (who knows what?) / A teeming lady-wife; nay more, / A Hans-in-kelder got before.
at Hans-en-Kelder, n.
[UK] ‘Cabal’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1965) II 335: The Earl whose spouse had such a spacious poop / As swallow’d up Ned Brab’zon and his troop.
at poop, n.1
[UK] ‘Ballad on Sir Robert Peyton’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1965) II 309: ’Twas not Estcourt the sot, / That knew all the plot, / And could only discover his mother’s lewd tw-t.
at twat, n.
[UK] ‘Panegyrick’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) I1 244: Thus sneak’d away the nephew overcome, / By’s aunt-in-law’s severer wit struck dumb.
at aunt, n.
[UK] ‘New Ballad’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) III 368: Learned Doctor T[itus] O[ates], as some relate, / Found a way in at boy’s back gate.
at back-door, n.
[UK] ‘Satire’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) V 386: Amstrong that bully ruffian spark.
at bully-ruffian (n.) under bully, n.1
[UK] ‘Satire’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) V 384: Slingsby, that huge maggot pate.
at maggot-brained (adj.) under maggot, n.
[UK] ‘Satire’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) V 385: Papillion pimp’d with a punk away.
at punk, n.1
[UK] C. Sackville ‘A Faithful Catalogue’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) IV 195: From St. James’s to the Land of Thule, There’s not a whore who spends so like a mule [...] For ’twas the custom of her ancient race / To f— with any fool, in any place.
at fuck, v.
[UK] ‘Supplement to The Last Will and Testament’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) III 409: Tap and spigot were dispos’d before, Or that had serv’d some Belgic commonshore.
at spigot, n.
[UK] ‘Salamanca Doctor’s Farewell’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) IV 18: With what homage and duty to Titus in glory / Had the worshipping saints turn’d their bums up before me: / But oh, the poor stallion, / A la mode d’Italian, / To be futter’d at last like an English rapscallion.
at futter, v.
[UK] ‘The Converts’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) IV 153: An antiquated lord / A walking mummy in a word / [...] / By pox and whores long since undone, Yet loves it still and fumbles on.
at fumble, v.
[UK] ‘The Converts’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) IV 153: An antiquated lord / A walking mummy in a word [...] By pox and whores long since undone, Yet loves it still and fumbles on.
at it, n.1
[UK] C. Sackville ‘A Faithful Catalogue’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1968) IV 193: She scorns such dwindles, her capacious arse / Is fitter for thy scepter, than thy tarse. [Ibid.] 196: The sodomite complains of too much room / And for an arse disdains her spacious womb.
at arse, n.
[UK] ‘Tom Tiler, or the Nurse’ in Lord Poems on Affairs of State (1963) IV 258: A Prince come in the nick of time (Bless’d d’Adda!), ’tis a venial crime / That shall repair our breach of state.
at breach, n.
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