Vulgar words in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Page 1)

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ass x 9
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Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head, Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes, Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, Upon this spotted and inconstant man.

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Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head BOTTOM.

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You see an ass-head of your own, do you?

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I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me; to fright me, if they could.

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The shallowest thickskin of that barren sort, Who Pyramus presented, in their sport Forsook his scene and ent'red in a brake; When I did him at this advantage take, An ass's nole I fixed on his head.

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I led them on in this distracted fear, And left sweet Pyramus translated there; When in that moment, so it came to pass, Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass.

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I must to the barber's, mounsieur; for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me I must scratch.

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Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

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Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.

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With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover and yet prove an ass.

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