: A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman Julian - Swearing

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At the Scufflers' Club--A stranger at the gates--A somnolent post-office--The best men in London--A sing-song--"Damn their eyes!"--"Qui s'excuse s'accuse"--The philosophy of swearing--A retrospect--"When that I was and a little tiny boy" 1

The son of discord--Origin of swearing--Decline of lying as an art--Growth of swearing as a science--The military oath-- Religious oath--John the Marshall--Fustian oaths--Legislation begins--"Moralit? des Blasph?mateurs"--George Fox and Margaret Fell--Oath of the King-Maker--Oath of the Bear-garden 22

"Odd's bodikins"--In Socrates' thinking-shop--The British shibboleth--Don Juan--Beaumarchais--Parny--Joan of Arc a satirist of swearing--La Hire--Corbleu et Cie.--"Jarnicoton"-- ""--'Jurons de Cadillac'--Little King Goddam-- Sir John Harrington--'Amends for Ladies'--"Don't care a damn" 38

Why has a dog a bad name?--Canine swearing--"Jarnichien!"--The cast of the die--Dog oath of Socrates--A nation of swearers-- Aristophanes--The Rhodian cabbage--"Mehercule"--'Ship of Fools'--Amenities of Roman swearing 60

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

A bank of swearing--Legislation at work--"The sweirer's and the Devill"--Aberdeen town records--Across the border--Before the footlights--'Magnetic Lady'--The wits--Colman the younger--A swearing bureau--Quarter Sessions--Statute of William and Mary--Convictions--A carnival of swearing 115

A saviour of society--Joseph Addison--A tradesman of the last century--A clerical apologist--Swearing in earnest and at play--An explanation offered--Blue laws of Connecticut-- Bobadil--'The Rivals'--'Covent Garden weeded'--Brant?me's oaths--Eccentricities of swearing--"Old Harry"--"The dickens"--"The deuce"--"Le diable de Biterne" 139

Utilitarian view of swearing--One touch of nature--The Shandean method--Code of Ernulphus--"Sacr? froc d'Habacuc"-- Mr. William Barley--Philosophy of imprecation--"Bloody"--In the Low Countries--'The Man of Mode'--Swift without his waistcoat--Sanglant--Retrospect and ending 171

A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARING.

AT THE SCUFFLERS' CLUB.

What wonderful odours are those that emanate from this quarter of the town! The dank vapours of Covent Garden are sweet in the nostrils of many a cockney reveller. There is no orange-peel so perfumed as the Drury orange-peel that has been concentrating its fragrance round the boards of Thespis since the days when Mohun and Hart, and Shatterel and Betterton strutted on the bare planks of the Cockpit. No scent of printer's ink is more refreshing than that which adheres to the yards of flimsy playbill still hawked about by itinerant vendors. But the whole place has through the day-time a blear-eyed, a drunk-over-night appearance. It is like a man who is never at his best until he has supped or dined. From morn till twilight it wears this sullen and uncared-for look. Wait until nightfall, and it will positively glisten with lamps and gleam with merriment. No wonder, therefore, that it has been the birthplace of so many of those midnight carousing dens, into one of which we are tremulously seeking to enter.

We must now be supposed to have reached the entrance of the hostelry, for indeed it was a Covent Garden tavern and nothing more.

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