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Certaine verses written in the Barbarian tongue, dropt out of a Negroes pocket, which I thought good to insert…
From The Nipping and Snipping of Abuses (1614)
Vaprosh fogh stinkquash flauorumques fie fominoshte
Spitterspawlimon, loatherso hem halkish spewriboshte
Mistrum fog smoakrash, choakerumques olifa trish trash
Dam durticum belchum, contagioshte vomitroshe:
Whifferum, puffe gulpum, allisnuff huff fleaminon odish,
Rewmito contaminosh diabollish dungish odorish:
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Taylor, John. “Certaine verses written in the Barbarian tongue, dropt out of a Negroes pocket, which I thought good to insert….” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/103/.
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Taylor, John. “Certaine verses written in the Barbarian tongue, dropt out of a Negroes pocket, which I thought good to insert….” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_j/103/.
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