Vulgar words in The Winter's Tale (Page 1)

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bastard x 10
damn x 2
            

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You are abus'd, and by some putter-on That will be damn'd for't.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 618   ~   ~   ~

I would land-damn him.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 792   ~   ~   ~

Give her the bastard.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 794   ~   ~   ~

Take up the bastard; Take't up, I say; give't to thy crone.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 851   ~   ~   ~

If thou refuse, And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so; The bastard brains with these my proper hands Shall I dash out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 867   ~   ~   ~

Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel And call me father?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 872   ~   ~   ~

You that have been so tenderly officious With Lady Margery, your midwife there, To save this bastard's life- for 'tis a bastard, So sure as this beard's grey- what will you adventure To save this brat's life?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 884   ~   ~   ~

We enjoin thee, As thou art liegeman to us, that thou carry This female bastard hence; and that thou bear it To some remote and desert place, quite out Of our dominions; and that there thou leave it, Without more mercy, to it own protection And favour of the climate.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 965   ~   ~   ~

You had a bastard by Polixenes, And I but dream'd it.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,406   ~   ~   ~

Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flow'rs o' th' season Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,419   ~   ~   ~

Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.

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