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yarb commented on the word bastardship
Zacharie after he had furnisht the wench with the poyson, and giu'n her instructions to goe to the diuell, durst not staye one houre for feare of disclosing, but fled to the Duke of Burbon that after sackt Rome, & there practised with his bastardship all the mischief against the pope and Rome that enuie could put into his minde.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010