“He's as great a master of ill language as ever was bred at a Bear-Garden.”
Ned Ward (1667–1731) English writer
Source: London Terraefilius, No. 3, p. 29, (1707).
“This is brave Bear-Garden language!”
See John Ray for explanation of Bear Garden.
Source: A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, p 232. (1698)
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