Literature
The play Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, published in 1684 and ascribed to John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, includes a character named Bolloxinion, King of Sodom (along with other characters with names such as General Buggeranthos and the maid of honour, Fuckadilla). The word bollox appears several times in the text, such as:
- "Had all mankind, whose pintles I adore,
- With well fill'd bollox swiv'd me o'er and o'er.
- None could in nature have oblig'd me more."
In 1690, the publisher Benjamin Crayle was fined 20 pounds and sent to prison for his part in publishing the play.
In one of the tales in Burton's 1885 translation of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Kafur, the eunuch, says:
- "But now my spirit is broken and my tricks are gone from me, so alas! are my ballocks."
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