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"If he were: {a Squire 10 do.
{a Yeoman 3_s._ 4_d._ {a Page, to be whipt."
'_A Sword against Swearers_,' 1611.
[40] 21 Jac. I. c. 20.
[41] 3 Jac. I. c. 21.
[42] Office-book of Sir Henry Herbert. Collier's 'History of Dramatic Poetry,' ii. 58.
[43] Coll. of State Papers, Domestic, 1635-6.
[44] Whitelock's Memorials.
[45] Quarter Sessions from Queen Elizabeth to Queen Anne, by A. H. A.
Hamilton. 1878.
[46] 19 Geo. II. cap. 21. There is also a penalty of 40_s._ for using profane language in the streets under the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, and the Metropolitan Police Act, 1839.
[47] J. P. Malcolm, 'Manners of London during XVII. Century.'
[48] "Diary of a Suss.e.x Tradesman a hundred years ago," printed in Suss.e.x Arch. Coll., vol. xi.
[49] 'The Rivals,' act ii. sc. 1.
[50] "By the Lord Harry! he should have done with Christmas boxes."
Swift, '_Journal to Stella_.'
[51] The cloven foot is an evidence of a clean beast, and horns are attributed, pictorially at least, to Moses.
[52] Edited by Sir Frederick Madden for the Roxburgh Club, 1828.
[53] 'Tristram Shandy,' vol. iii. ch. 12.
[54] 'Harangue des Habitans de Sarcelles,' 1740.
[55] "This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he hath done about Turnbull Street."--2 _Henry IV._, ii. 3.
[56] Where it is used in the sense of pertaining to kins.h.i.+p--"They are my blody brethren, quod pieres, for G.o.d boughte us alle."--'_Piers Plowman_,' vi. 210.
[57] Where it is met with as a verb--"With my own hands, I'll b.l.o.o.d.y my own sword."
[58] 'Montaigne's Essays,' ed. Hazlitt, iii. 120.
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