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Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… as an illustration of his bounty. His indifference to mere ribald criticism may be seen in his contemptuous note, "an …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… them that Wolsey had called him a liar, Lady Margaret a ribald, Don Fernando a child, and Bourbon a traitor. This …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… fell upon Tollerton and Alan, saying, We defy you, ribald knaves ( scurras) and losels, and don't care for your …
Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
… of the tithe of sheaves of the demesne [lands] of the late Ribald; also in Laybura, in the parish of Wendesley; in …
Old and New London
… century of humiliations, after being the standing butt of ribald caricaturists, and the easy mark of witlings, it …
Old and New London
… the result was demoralising and exhausting. Drink led to ribald language and fighting, but the refreshment now taken … "the ladies of the British fishery." Tom Brown gives a ribald sketch of the fish-fag; and coarse-tongued Ned Ward, … and in 1796 nearly 4,000 watermen were thus enrolled. The ribald banter of the Thames watermen was formerly proverbial, …
Memorials of London and London Life
… in the City, should make 20 shillings by him, than such a ribald 20 pence. And also, Sires, he has said in your …
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts in the Archives and Collections of Milan
… daily prayers they howled their metrical psalms and other ribald songs in German. But the bishop accepted all in …
Old and New London
… lamp-posts. The crowds in the streets spent the night in ribald jokes and drunken scuffles. Greenacre, when he passed …