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Quote #10
She spoke boldly and strongly wherever she went in London against swearers, cursers, liars and other such vicious people, and against the pompous fashions of both men and women. (II.9.289)
Kempe doesn't care at all about popular opinion, and we are never aware of this so much as when she's speaking out. At this time, she's returning from her disastrous trip to the Continent with her daughter-in-law, and we can see that age has not made her more timid. She's had a kind of vocation to speak out against those who curse or swear, and she calls them "vicious." This is because cursing in medieval England almost always involved a blasphemous reference to Christ's body.