Vulgar words in Cymbeline (Page 1)

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ass x 2
bastard x 1
damn x 9
whore x 1
            

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[Aside] If it be a sin to make a true election, she is damn'd.

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[Aside] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall of an ass, which is no great hurt.

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I do know her spirit, And will not trust one of her malice with A drug of such damn'd nature.

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Had I this cheek To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch, Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul To th' oath of loyalty; this object, which Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye, Fixing it only here; should I, damn'd then, Slaver with lips as common as the stairs That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands Made hard with hourly falsehood- falsehood as With labour; then by-peeping in an eye Base and illustrious as the smoky light That's fed with stinking tallow- it were fit That all the plagues of hell should at one time Encounter such revolt.

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Exeunt CLOTEN and FIRST LORD That such a crafty devil as is his mother Should yield the world this ass!

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The cognizance of her incontinency Is this: she hath bought the name of whore thus dearly.

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We are all bastards, And that most venerable man which I Did call my father was I know not where When I was stamp'd.

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O damn'd paper, Black as the ink that's on thee!

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That drug-damn'd Italy hath out-craftied him, And he's at some hard point.

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Thou shalt not damn my hand.

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Damn'd Pisanio Hath with his forged letters- damn'd Pisanio- From this most bravest vessel of the world Struck the main-top.

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Accommodated by the place, more charming With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks, Part shame, part spirit renew'd; that some turn'd coward But by example- O, a sin in war Damn'd in the first beginners!- gan to look The way that they did and to grin like lions Upon the pikes o' th' hunters.

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