1er juillet 1663,
qui dans les
deux éditions débute ainsi :
« Mr Batten telling
us of a late triall of Sir Charles Sydly the other day, before my Lord Chief
Justice Foster
and the whole
Bench, for his debauchery a little while since at Oxford Kates ; […].
»
« Mr Batten nous parlant du dernier jugement de Sir
Charles Sydly l’autre jour, devant mon Seigneur Foster
Chef de la Justice et toute la cour, pour son acte de
débauche peu de temps auparavant à Oxford Kates ; […]. »
À cet endroit, une note de bas de page dans DIA précise :
« The details in
the Diary are too gross to print. »
«
Les détails dans le Journal sont trop grossiers pour être rapportés. »
Voici ces détails :
« […] coming in open day into the balcone and showed his
nakedness – acting all the postures of lust and buggery that could be
imagined, and abusing of scripture and, as it were, from thence preaching a
mountebanke sermon from that pulpitt, saying that there he hath to sell such a
pouder as should make all the cunts in town run after him – a thousand
people standing underneath to see and hear him. And that being done, he took a
glass of wine and washed his prick in it and then drank it off ; and then took
another and drank the King’s health. Upon this discourse, Sir J. Mennes
and Mr Batten both say that buggery is now almost grown as common among our
gallants as in