But our lewd tastes her lawful charms refuse, And painted art's depraved allurements choose.

Ay, so it is: if she have any ill, Through the lewd shaveling will her shame be wrought.

A man long suspected of very lewd behaviour, Yet standing ever so high in Fortune's favour, As never till now he could be bewrayed Of any offence, that to him might be laid: Now wanting (belike) his wonted bravery, He thought to supply it by murther and robbery.

This gallant, I tell you, with other lewd franions, Such as himself, unthrifty companions, In most cruel sort, by the highway-side, Assaulted a countryman as he homewards did ride: Robbed him, and spoiled him of all that they might, And lastly bereav'd him of his life outright.

My former lewd and vile misgovernment.

Now she can kiss me, hang about my neck, And soothe me with smooth smiles and lewd entreaties.

O, this is she usurps The precious interest of my husband's love; Though, as I am a woman, I could well Thrust such a lewd companion out of doors; Yet, as I am a true, obedient, wife, I'd kiss her feet to do my husband's will.

That I will never tempt you more to sin: This my request issince your husband dotes Upon a lewd, lascivious courtesan Since he hath broke the bonds of your chaste bed,

And, like a murd'rer, sent you to your grave, Do but go with me to my mother's house; There shall you live in secret for a space, Only to see the end of such lewd lust, And know the difference of a chaste wife's bed, And one whose life is in all looseness led.

O, never had chaste wife A husband of so lewd and unchaste life!

Tell me, of what estate or birth was she? Y. ART, Born of good parents, and as well brought up; Most fair, but not so fair as virtuous; Happy in all things but her marriage; Her riotous husband, which I weep to think, By his lewd life, made them both miscarry.

Hitherto we have sought all the honest means we could to live, and now let us dare aliqua brevibus gyris et carcere dignum; let us run through all the lewd forms of lime-twig, purloining villanies; let us prove coneycatchers, bawds, or anything, so we may rub out.

This senseless tale is, however, so well varnished with melody of words and pomp of sentiments, I am convinced it has hurt more girls than ever were injured by the lewdest poems extant.

And albeit the people are most lewd, yet the country is exceedingly good, abounding with al commodities, as flesh, corne, rise, siluer, gold, wood of aloes, Campheir, and many other things.

A boon, indeed, and a grateful exchange, was the Mother Mild of the Roman Catholic Pantheon, the patroness of the broken-hearted, who inclines her countenance graciously to the petitions of womanly anguish, for the voluptuous Aphrodite, the haughty Juno, the Di-Vernonish Artemis, and the lewd and wanton nymphs of forest, mountain, ocean, lake, and river.

They habitually made lewd jokes of everything human and divine, and were noted for their cruelty to animals.

[Instead, he remained in a city of Moesia, rioting, as was his wont.] (Not only was he averse to physical labor and timorous in spirit, but also most profligate and lewd toward women and boys alike).

Belial is described in the first Book, as the Idol of the Lewd and Luxurious.

Sulla's tastes seem to have been low in the matter of plays, if we may trust Plutarch, who asserts that when he was young he spent much of his time among mimi and jesters, and that when he was dictator he "daily got together from the theatre the lewdest persons, with whom he would drink and enter into a contest of coarse witticisms."

It is to be remembered, that the poets, as well as the vulgar, use some forms which a gentleman would be likely to avoid, unless he meant to quote or imitate; as, "So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.

Charles Addams (A); 11Oct68; R445368. Psst, Bud, wanna take a gander at some lewd sand sculpture?

He had written the anonymous letter, and was truly "a lewd fellow of the baser sort.

They were notorious, even among Indians, for their immodesty and lewd conduct, and were consequently incapable of either feeling or inspiring any but the coarsest sensual passion.

I observed the people degenerated from the ancient glorious inhabitants, who were generous, brave, and the most valiant of all nations, to a vicious baseness of soul, barbarous, treacherous, jealous and revengeful, lewd and cowardly, intolerably proud and haughty, bigoted to blind, incoherent devotion, and the grossest of idolatry.

In an evil hour he took to wife Rebecca, relict of Abraham Elson, and also relict of Jarvis Mudge, and of whom so good a man as the Rev. John Whiting, minister of the First Church in Hartfordafterward first pastor of the Second Churchsaid that she was "a lewd, ignorant and considerably aged woman.