A Cursory History of Swearing

CHAPTER V.

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Mediaeval swearing--The monastic teaching--Cleric and lay-- Robert Crowley--Mystery of the five wounds--"God's bread!"--In a Tuscan studio--Stephen Hawes--Thomas Becon--'Miroir du Monde'--'Handlyng Sinne'--Chaucer's oaths--Plantagenet swearing--"Ventre Saint Gris"--A royal scapegrace--"Bismillah!" 77