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  • Very blustering and their was a man Whipt thirty and nine

    The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson

  • He was undoubtedly imprisoned for his _Abuses Whipt and Stript_, which first appeared in print in 1613, but I do not think an _earlier_ offence can be proved against him.

    Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 Various

  • Rhime, which he spued from his Maw, as _Tom Coriat_ formerly used to spue _Greek_, and that with a great pretence to a Poetical Zeal, against the Vices of the Times; which he mightily exclaim'd against in his _Abuses Stript and Whipt_, his _Motto_, _Brittains Remembrancer_,

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • _Scourge_ is part of the _Abuses Whipt and Stript_ printed in 1613 (a copy of which is now before me), to which it forms a postscript.

    Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 Various

  • Indeed my dear Freind, I never remember suffering any vexation equal to what I experienced on last Monday when my sister came running to me in the store-room with her face as White as a Whipt syllabub, and told me that Hervey had been thrown from his Horse, had fractured his Scull and was pronounced by his surgeon to be in the most emminent Danger.

    Love And Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1922

  • His heart which (to use your favourite comparison) was as delicate as sweet and as tender as a Whipt - syllabub, could not resist her attractions.

    Love And Freindship Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1922

  • In _The Presbyterian, Lash or Noctroff's Maid Whipt_ (1661), a satire on Crofton, we read: "It is not only contrary to Gospel but good manners to take up a wench's petticoats, smock and all"; and in the doggerel ballad of "Bo-Peep," which was also written on the same subject, it is said that Crofton should have left his wife to chastise the maid.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

  • This play was revised by Marston and Chapman in 1599, under the title of _Histriomastix, or The Player Whipt_, as a counter-attack upon Shakespeare in order to revenge the satire which he, in conjunction with Dekker and Chettle, directed against Chapman and

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • His relations with such a pupil could not well be harmonious; and Aubrey charges him with unkindness, a vague accusation rendered tangible by the interlined gloss, “Whipt him.”

    Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

  • In 1613 he published his _Abuses Stript and Whipt_, one of the general and rather artificial satires not unfashionable at the time.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

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