For higher ranks suchribaldry despise, Condemn the Poet, and withhold the prize.
Ribaldry is dangerous under any Circumstances of Representation.
For frequenting the Play-House has brought Whoring and Ribaldry into Vogue, and finish'd all the parts of Debauchery.
Do's Ribaldryand Nonsence become the Dignity of their Station, and the Solemnity of their Office?
So that you are under a necessity either of taking Ribaldry or Nonsence.
Is Ribaldry so very obliging, and Atheism so Charming a Quality?
The purity of childhood is not to be defiled by the ribaldry of the banquet and the example of a mother's intrigues or a father's brutal excesses.
He was, as usual, interrupted in his defence by ribaldry and scurrility from the judgment seat.
He was particularly famous for his talent in cross-examination, indulging in ribaldry and banter to a degree which would not now be permitted.
Wallop sat down, and Baxter himself attempted to put in a word; but the chief justice drowned all expostulation in a torrent of ribaldry and invective, mingled with scraps of Hudibras.
Lionel threw his eyes over the offensive lines, where in coarse ribaldry names the most venerable were held up to scorn and derision.
Often her childish sleep in a small top room with slanting sides would be broken upon by loud ribaldry that lasted into dawn, but never by word, and certainly not by deed, was she to know from her aunt any of its sordid significance.
But Byron chooses fifty armour-bearers of that class of men who would find indecent ribaldry about a wife a good joke, and talk about the 'artistic merits' of things which we hope would make an honest boy blush.
The ribaldry and the obscenity and the insults with which he strove to make her ridiculous in the world fell at her pitying feet unheeded.
Perhaps, indeed, some of the ribaldry of the convent scenes in the verse may be due to the Puritanism which is so distinct in the prose.
The sacred chant had ceased, and instead a hundred tongues were vociferating at once, some in anger, some in expostulation, some in maudlin ribaldry and mirth.
He has sometimes borrowed the scenes and incidents of Moliere; but has too frequently given us ribaldry in the low characters, and bombast in the higher, instead of the admirable grace and liveliness of the French dramatist.
Accordingly, many of the jests of Plautus are such as might be expected from a writer anxious to accommodate himself to the taste of the times, and naturally catching the spirit of ribaldry which prevailed.
The promoter of the present Edition hath ventured to discard but few more upon his own judgment, the most considerable of which is that wretched piece of ribaldry in King Henry V.
These, for several reasons, could not possibly be published by the Author; and it is extremely probable that the French ribaldry was at first inserted by a different hand, as the many additions most certainly were after he had left the Stage.
Mrs. Blennerhasset was compelled to witness the ruthless destruction of all she held most dear, and to listen to the brutal ribaldry and insults of the rioting savages.
The petitions of the pious were matched by the ribaldry of the profligate.
The ribaldry of his conversation moved astonishment even in that age.
Tens of thousands of copies were circulated by the post, or dropped in the streets; and such was the strength of national prejudice that too many persons read this ribaldry with assent and admiration.
Still more were they exasperated at the ribaldrywhich vulgar Protestants uttered against their most sacred mystery.
In a certain place a great man who was driving with his wife, when he saw the crowd and heard what they were saying, was angry, crying with a loud voice: 'What ribaldry is this?
The men for the most part were more outspoken in ribaldry than the women, especially those specimens of masculinity who frequented at that hour the purlieus of Piccadilly Circus.
By this force of action, though mixed with all the incoherence and ribaldry imaginable, Daniel can laugh at his diocesan, and grow fat by voluntary subscription, while the parson of the parish goes to law for half his dues.
The Corporation attended the general to his lodgings amid the acclamations and the bonfires of the people, at which they roasted rumps in ridicule of the Parliament, and heaped on it every infamy which wit and ribaldry could devise.
Skelton directed hisribaldry especially against the mendicant friars and the formidable Wolsey.
But, in another and not unimportant sense, Shadwell was far from honest; for he was notorious for the ribaldry of his conversation.
I recollect of looking about me and seeing a motley group of lunatics, some cursing, some yelling, while others were keeping up a constant ribaldry of blackguarding and obscene language.
This carnival of ribaldry seemed as some picture from the nether world.
That is an age which moves youth either to ribaldry or to compassion.
Heterodox ribaldry disgusts me, I confess, rather more than orthodox fanaticism.
The last of the series, addressed to the secretary of a free-thought association, expresses his firmly rooted disgust at the use of mere ribaldry in attacking the theological husks which enclose a religious ideal.
In his theological controversies he was no less careful to avoid any approach to mere abuse or ribaldry such as some opponents of Christian dogma indulged in.
