Along with the slapstick element, Jacob's troupe removed bawdiness and smutty language. It is also referred to as "bawdiness" or "bawdy". What struck the contemporary audiences most was the bawdiness and innuendo. Besides the bawdiness there are several digressions into philosophy, music, and literature in the book. They are completely free of the bawdiness with which the verse form is now associated. As an important cattle town, it had the rough frontier bawdiness of the time.