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BEP(P.781.023
15 Dec 1781:12 (1/9)
[Reference in long essay entitled "The History of
Nonsense."]
. . . In the merry days of King Charles II, nonsense assumed
a more gay and libertine air; and her progeny, from
fanatics, became downright infidels. Several courtiers of
the family wrote lewd plays, as well as luscious love-songs,
and other loose verses, which were collected together, and
greedily bought up in miscellanies. . .
[at the end, comments on nonsense today:]
But, for the credit of so polite an age, be it known, that
the children of nonsense, who are many of them, at present,
people of fashion, are as often seen at the Assembly as at
church; and it is something strange, that the family of
nonsense are now many of them advanced to the important
office of J--- of the P----.
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