"Plough with the favorite heifer", 1749

[Charles Doyle]

Perhaps "C-n-ss" means "Countess"--so represented to allow
for a pun on "cunt" (and perhaps "ass" too, if "ass" had
acquired the appropriate signification by 1749)?

--Charlie



---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:50:41 -0500
>From: "Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL>
>Subject: Re: "Plough with the favorite heifer", 1749
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>> "We are informed that a certain Foreign . . . who makes a
>> very splendid Figure amongst us, has already lern'd to
pursue
>> the old English Maxim of ploughing with the favorite
Heifer,
>> which he thoroughly understands in the metaphorical Sense;
>> and that a certain Naturaliz'd C-n-ss, in Conformity to
this
>> Maxim, was lately entertain'd by him with great Splendour
and
>> Expense."
>>
>>

>
>And what is "C-n-ss"?  Surely not coonass?
>

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