bastinade
Americannoun
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There's fun in everything we meet; The greatest, worst, and best Existence is a merry treat, And every speech a jest: Be 't ours to watch the crowds that pass Where mirth's gay banner waves; To show fools through a quizzing glass, And bastinade the knaves.
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Bastinade! thou doest wrong to all this worshipful company by so grievous a slur.
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This stanza from The Croakers will show the character of the verse and its avowed object:— "There's fun in everything we meet, The greatest, worst, and best; Existence is a merry treat, And every speech a jest: Be't ours to watch the crowds that pass Where Mirth's gay banner waves; To show fools through a quizzing-glass And bastinade the knaves."
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