As I recall, "zounds" et al were used primarily on
stage (though without necessarily originating there)
so as to evade the queen's censor.
Candice
--- MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bob's your uncle! ;-) >And a rayling tongue is a
> pestilence so full of
> contagiousnesse, that Saint Paul willeth Christian
> men to forbeare the
> company of such, and neither to eate nor drinke with
> them (1 Corinthians
> 5.11). And whereas hee will not that a Christian
> woman should forsake
> her husband, although he be an Infidell, or that a
> Christian seruant
> should depart from his Master, which is an Infidell
> and Heathen, and so
> suffer a Christian man to keepe company with an
> Infidell: yet he
> forbiddeth vs to eate or drinke with a scoulder, or
> quarrelpicker. And
> also in the first Chapter to the Corinthians, hee
> saith thus, Be not
> deceiued, for neither fornicators, neither
> worshippers of Idols, neither
> theeues, nor drunkards, nor cursed speakers shall
> dwell in the kingdome
> of heauen (1 Corinthians 6.9-10). It must needs be a
> great fault, that
> doth moue and cause the father to disherite his
> naturall sonne. And how
> can it otherwise be, but that this cursed speaking
> must needs be a most
> damnable sin, the which doeth cause GOD our most
> mercifull and louing
> Father, to depriue vs of his most blessed kingdome
> of heauen?<
> So never say Gorblimey again, Patrick!
> Bob Marcacci wrote:
>
> >Actually, I never understood this... People who
> replace their swearing with
> >"safe" expressions... I mean, you're still swearing
> in your heart, yeah? and
> >for that, you'll burn in hell... i mean i will...
> or, i mean, at least, i'm
> >an honest swearer... i think now, we can
> distinguish between swearing and
> >taking the lord's name in vain...
> >
> >If you say bulls&$% or bullspit, your intentions
> are the same...
> >
> >There're alotta closet cursers out there...
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> A man may write of love, and not be in love, as well
> as of husbandrie, and not goe to plough: or of
> witches, and be none: or of holinesse, and be flat
> prophane. - Giles Fletcher the Elder.
>
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