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When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any
standers-by to curtail his oaths.
When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any
standers-by to curtail his oaths.
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
Jack was embarrassed--never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.
Jack was embarrassed--never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,
Because the insult's not on man, but God?
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod,
Because the insult's not on man, but God?
Though "Bother it" I may
Occasionally say,
I never never use a big, big, D.
Though "Bother it" I may
Occasionally say,
I never never use a big, big, D.
I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
Our armies swore terrible in Flanders.
There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
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There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
Ere Mercy weeps them out again.