Fun and games among the Quakers: "Rogerene"

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Mon Apr 28 15:14:31 UTC 2014


On 4/28/14, 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> 1694   P. A. Motteux et al. tr. Rabelais Wks. I. i. xi. 44   And some of the other Women would give these Names, My Roger, my Cockatoo, my Nimble-wimble, Bush-beater, Claw-buttock..my lusty Live Saucage.
Wow, so Blackadder is historically accurate in its diction. . . .

---Amy West

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