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“When I teach 'The Unfortunate Traveller' (occasionally), I run into problems because, in my attempts to explain to students why the torture of Cutwolfe would have been funny for early modern readers ('Old excellent he was at a bone-ache'), I tend to convince them that I find slow sadistic death rather hilarious myself.”
“He was as wrinkled as a dried apple, and his knees and elbows were swollen with the bone-ache that afflicted the old.”
“Once he was one of the best warriors, but the bone-ache conquered him.”
“After this, the vengeance on the whole camp! or, rather, the Neapolitan bone-ache! for that, methinks, is the curse dependant on those that war for a placket.”
“After this the vengeance on the whole campe, or rather the Neopolitan bone-ache: for that me thinkes is the curse depending on those that warre for a placket.”
“After this, the vengeance on the whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that, methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war for a placket.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bone-ache’.
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French gout and Spanish pox
Assorted terms for syphilis
syphilis, specific stomach, bad blood, bang and biff, bone-ache, coachman on the box, delicate taint, enviable disease, fire, foul disorder, French crown, French goods and 26 more...
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Wilton's words
Favourite words, usages and passages from Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Iacke Wilton" (1594)
doit, dandiprat, weep one's urine ..., snudge, scuppet, langret, fullam, hedgecreeper, pickthanke, go shop the gander, together by the ears, quagmire and 42 more...
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