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The Sillie Worme

19 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by SG in Authors, Erotica, Humour, Literature, Nash Thomas, Poetry, Satire, Sex

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The Sillie Worme – a phrase from Thomas Nash’s The Choise of Valentines (or, Nash his dildo), published as a manuscript in the early 1590s.

A long poem – bawdy, satirical, comic – probably composed for subscribers rather than a wide audience.

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Rumpy-Pompeii

The story: Tomalin visits a brothel and, once “the coast is clear”, gets down to some Tudor rumpy-pumpy with the gentle mistress Francis. This passage (ll.93-156) gives the ins-and-outs, but then … impotence:

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