| The bawdry of Mercutio and of the Nurse is richly suited to the comic texture of the opening scenes. |
| Out of the strange melange of bawdry and bloodshed would emerge the origins of his irrepressible folk humour. |
| But many scholars challenge this claim, finding evidence in the Greek words of the bawdry of later Comic poets. |
| This poetic output, at a time when post-Chaucerian England was fallow, was a combination of classic grace, religious fervour, eroticism, and bawdry which was almost hypnotic. |
| This will prove rare sport, to see how the poet's genius will grapple with this bawdry! |
| Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition? |
