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Two were "taken out of a notorious and reputed house of Bawdry in Company with Lewd women," and had assaulted him in their anger at being stopped in their activities. We whose wallets depend on the Bard rarely admit that the Fool's bawdry may evoke "the wearisome uneasiness which one experiences when listening to jokes which are not witty" (51). Women and slaves work; chieftains fight, raid, pillage, and (in Ascham's phrase) perpetrate "bold bawdry. |
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