 | George deF. Lord - 1963 - 608 pages
...commonplace love poems. To frisk his frolic fancy he'd cry "c !" Would give the ladies a dry, bawdy bob, n And thus he got the name of Poet Squab. But to be just, 'twill to his praise be found, His excellencies more than faults abound, Nor dare I from his... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...But when he would be sharp, he still was blunt, To frisk his frolic fancy, he'd cry, 'Cunt!' Would give the ladies a dry bawdy bob, And thus he got the name of Poet Squab. But to be just, 'twill to his praise be found, His excellencies more than faults abound. Nor dare I from his... | |
 | John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - 2002 - 332 pages
...still was blunt: To frisk his frolic fancy, he'd cry, "Cunt!" Would give the ladies a dry bawdy bob, n And thus he got the name of Poet Squab. But, to be just, 'twill to his praise be found His excellencies more than faults abound ; Nor dare I from his... | |
 | Joseph Arrowsmith, Juan A. Prieto Pablos - 2003 - 206 pages
...But, when he would be sharp, he still was blunt: To frisk his frolic fancy, he'd cry "Cunt!" Would give the ladies a dry bawdy bob, And thus he got the name of Poet Squab. (71-76) Years later the joke was still current. Thus, in The Medal of John Bayes (1682), Shadwell ridicules... | |
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Dryden in vain tried this nice way of wit; For he, to be a tearing blade, thought fit To give the ladies a dry bawdy bob ; And thus he got the name of Poet Squab. But to be just, 'twill to his praise be found, His excellencies more than faults abound... 
