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Cavalier
Curses & Cusses
V ive
Le Roy, God save the King, Charles Stuart King of
England, God with us, The church and the Lord etc etc.
These are all Royalist cries that we know and love well,
but to ad a little to your 17th century insult
repertoire start with a few traditional ones like: Down
with the roundheads, Majesty is sacred, Rebel rouges,
God will preserve us, Ruin is the fate of discord,
Monarchy the best of governments, God and Queen Mary,
For King and Queen or perhaps even Make haste and kill a
roundhead!. If you want to get a bit more biblical try :
Give Caesar his due, Touch not mine anointed or Render
unto Caesar the things which are Ceasers, Render unto
God the things which are Gods! If you wanted to take the
Mickey out of the Earl of Essex why not try : Cuckolds
we come or You great cuckolds or perhaps you could even
sing out…….
Come fill my cup
Here's to
the taking of Hull
To the
men that shall bring
The
great cuckold to the King
Seeing as one Parliamentarian said of the Kings army
"They could out swear the French, Out drink the Dutch
and out paramour the Turk" Why not try being a bit rude
with: Faggot monger, Roundhead curr, Essex bastards,
Sons of a puritan bitch, Begot thou son of an Egyptian
whore or simply just Whoresons!
If you
were fed up with there constant psalms singing preachers
why tell them to:
Go preach in a crab tree, Be silent hogs wash heads, or
Let not your zeal in a bad cause dazzle your eyes no
longer!. If things are getting hot try: One for the
devil, One for God and one for the King, I live by these
things and I shall die by them before I give up my
Sovereign, Kill Dead, Cry Havoc, or simply tell them to
O Hone! (go home).
The term "Stouting it out" is the 17th century version
of WWII's "sorry chum too late" i.e. as in the
non-taking of prisoners after heavy fighting.
If you were feeling particularly nasty you could offer:
Magderburg Mercy or Hopton Quarter. You could also tell
them that they are: More fit for Bedlam or Bridewell or
they fight like Leager Lady's (whores) or just call them
Numbskulls, Flirt Gills, Full gorged gudgeons, Frothy
maids, Sons of a fishmongers daughter, Toss Pots,
Foppish Louts, Cack handlers, Stinking puking piss
lickers, Fustilarians, Flap mouthed giglets, Fensucked,
Fly bitten gorbellied oafs, Fool born footlickers,
Urchin snouted bug bears, hedge born apple johns,
villainous clapper toadies, Hugger Muggers, Maggot pies,
barnacle brains and onion eyed death tokens! To name but
a few. But just remember don't get to over zealous with
your wording when your betters are about, For as Sir
Ralph Hopton said of commanding an army: "Pay well,
Command well, Hang Well"
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