The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. IIBrown, Thomas
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. II
Brown, Thomas
English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800; Erotic literature -- Early works to 1800; Latin literature -- Translations into English
As he was thus teazing me, who should we stumble upon but captain
_Swinny_ the _Irishman_; you cannot but imagine a very joyful
congratulation pass’d between us: who had been stanch friends, such old
and intimate acquaintance. No sooner was our salutation over, but we
began to enquire as we us’d to do upon earth, into one another’s
circumstances: upon which, says _Swinny, By my soul and shalvation, I
have got my good old lord here, that I us’d to procure and pimp for in
t’other world; and as he gave me money upon earth to indulge him in his
sins, and provide him whores to cool his lechery, now he’s damn’d for’t,
like a grateful master, he allows me every day a dish of snapdragons to
fetch him water from_ Styx, _to cool his entrails_. I think, says
_Bob_, you were always very careful of your lord’s health, and never
brought any thing to his embraces but unpenetrated maids, or very sound
thorn-backs. _By chriesh and shaint Patrick, ’tis very true_, says he,
_for I always made my self his taster for fear he should be poison’d,
and first took a sip of the cup to try whether the juice was good or no;
and tho’ he was as great a wencher as any was in_ England, _I’ll take my
swear, excepting the gout, he’s come as sound a nobleman into hell, as
has took leave of the other world these fifty years, and was so very
bobborous two days ago, tho’ he’s near seventy, that he bid me look out
for soft-handed she-devil to give him a little frication, and said
nothing vex’d him but that he was damn’d among a parcel of spirits, with
whom he could have no carnal copulation: well, gentlemen, I must loiter
no longer, I am travelling in haste to_ Styx _to fill my lord’s bottle,
but all won’t cool his lechery, tho’ he be turn’d a perfect aquapote so,
my dear joys, farewel_.
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