HAHAHA!
jeez Robin. awesome list of venusians there.
KS
2008/12/14 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
> Robin what are you doing up at 2am?? Just a thot. P
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>
> As it turns out now, simply establishing that Pierre Motteux's translation
> of the pseudo-Rabelaisian "Pantagruelian Prognostication", chapter 5,
> published in 1693, demonstrates that Motteux had attended a performance of
> Thomas Shadwell's _Squire of Alsatia_ in 1688.
>
> Which I suppose is worth knowing, but less than I'd hoped for when I came
> on the original passage that caught my attention, and promptly thought it
> had been written in retro-cant by W.E.Henley.
>
> So bugger *that for a joke, and not worth losing a night's sleep for.
>
> :-(
>
> Robin
>
> (Though at least Motteux managed to get Shadwell right and use the older
> form, "blowing", rather than George Saintsbury's anachronistic emendation
> [in his New Mermaid edition of Shadwell in 1900] to "blowen".)
>
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>
> PANTAGRUELIAN PROGNOSTICATION
>
> Those whom Venus is said to rule, as Punks, Jilts, Flirts,
> Queans, Morts, Doxies, Strumpets, Buttocks, Blowings, Tits,
> Pure Ones, Concubines, Convenients, Cracks, Drabs, Trulls,
> Light-skirts, Wrigglers, Misses, Cats, Riggs, Try'd Virgins,
> Bona-robaes, Barbers Chairs, Hedge-whores, Wagtails, Cock-
> atrices, Whipsters, Twiggers, Harlots, Kept-wenches, Kind-
> hearted-things, Ladies of Pleasure, by what Titles or Names
> soever dignified or distinguish'd ; Bawds, Pimps, Panders,
> Procurers, and Mutton - breakers ; Wenchers, Lechers,
> Shakers, Smockers, Cousins, Cullies, Stallions and Belli-
> bumpers; Ganymedes, Bardachoes, Hufflers, Ingles, Frica-
> trices, He- whores and Sodomites; swaggering Huff-snuffs,
> bouncing Bullies, Braggadocio's, Tory-rory Rakes and Tan-
> tivy-boys; peppered, clapt and pox'd Dabblers; shankered,
> colliflower'd, carbuncled Martyrs and Confessors of Venus ;
> Rovers, Ruffian-Rogues, and Hedge-creepers ; Female Cham-
> berlains ; Nomina mulierum definienta in ess, ut, Laundress,
> Sempstress, Hostess, etc., and in er, ut, Mantua-maker, Bed-
> maker, Bar-keeper, Fruiterer, etc., all these will be famous
> this Year. But when the Sun enters Cancer and other
> Signs, let them beware of the Crinkums, and its Attendants ;
> as Shankers, Claps, Virulent Gonorrheas, Cordees, Buboes,
> or Running Nags, Pockroyals, Botches, Wens or Condyloms,
> Tetters, Scabs, Nodes, Glands, Tumours, Carnosities, etc.
> Nuns shall hardly conceive without Carnal Copulation ;
> very few Virgins shall have milk at the Breasts.
>
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