The shocking prospect of fighting fellow subjects could also prompt flights of literary bdelygmia. […]Writing from Berwick to his cousin Robert Read, Windebank admitted that ‘we have had a most cold, wet and long time of living in the field’, but the troops had ‘… kept ourselves warm with the hopes of rubbing, fubbing and scrubbing those scurvy, filthy, dirty, nasty, lousy, itchy, scabby, shitten, stinking, slovenly, snotty-nosed, logger-headed, foolish, insolent, proud, beggarly, impertinent, absurd, grout-headed, villainous, barbarous, bestial, false, lying, roguish, devilish, long-eared, short-haired, damnable, atheistical, puritanical crew of the Scotch Covenant.’

Clare Jackson, Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 (2021)