# Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 1 [of 7]

Author: Farmer, John Stephen, 1854-1916; Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903

Genre: English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78263

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Slang+and+its+analogues+past+and+present%2C+volume+1+%5Bof+7%5D+Farmer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

... the basest and most poorest shape, That ever penury in contempt of man, Brought near to beast: my face I’ll grime with filth; Blanket my loins; elf all my hair in knots; And with presented nakedness outface The winds, and persecutions of the sky. The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices, Strike in their numb’d and mortified bare arms Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; And with this horrible object, from low farms, Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes and mills, Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers, Enforce their charity.

## Chapters

- [viii. And there are others again who blart right out whatever comes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slang-and-its-analogues-past-and-present-volume-1-of-7-78263/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Act ii., Scene 3, describes and puts into the mouth of one of these](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slang-and-its-analogues-past-and-present-volume-1-of-7-78263/chapters/1/index.md)
- [xxvii. They had barnacles on the handles of their faces, or](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slang-and-its-analogues-past-and-present-volume-1-of-7-78263/chapters/2/index.md)
- [x. If he forswore the primitive garments that his country-tailor](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slang-and-its-analogues-past-and-present-volume-1-of-7-78263/chapters/4/index.md)