Vulgar words in The Way of the World (Page 1)
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He owns, with toil he wrought the following scenes, But if they're naught ne'er spare him for his pains: Damn him the more; have no commiseration For dulness on mature deliberation.
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In short, our play shall (with your leave to show it) Give you one instance of a passive poet, Who to your judgments yields all resignation: So save or damn, after your own discretion.
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I'd no more play with a man that slighted his ill fortune than I'd make love to a woman who undervalued the loss of her reputation.
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No matter for that; 'tis for the honour of England that all Europe should know we have blockheads of all ages.
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'Sbud, a man had as good be a professed midwife as a professed whoremaster, at this rate; to be knocked up and raised at all hours, and in all places.
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Come, thou art an honest fellow, Petulant, and shalt make love to my mistress, thou shalt, faith.
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Pray forbear--I believe you; I'm convinced I've done you wrong; and any way, every way will make amends: I'll hate my wife yet more, damn her, I'll part with her, rob her of all she's worth, and we'll retire somewhere, anywhere, to another world; I'll marry thee--be pacified.--'Sdeath, they come: hide your face, your tears.
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The devil's an ass: if I were a painter, I would draw him like an idiot, a driveller with a bib and bells.
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Well, an illiterate man's my aversion; I wonder at the impudence of any illiterate man to offer to make love.
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Your horse is an ass, sir!
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'Slife, we shall have a quarrel betwixt an horse and an ass, before they find one another out.--You must not take anything amiss from your friends, sir.
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Ods heart, and then tell a familiar tale of a cock and a bull, and a whore and a bottle, and so conclude.
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Damn him, that had been mine--had you not made that fond discovery.
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Thou art (without a figure) just one half of an ass, and Baldwin yonder, thy half-brother, is the rest.
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[Sings]:- Prithee fill me the glass, Till it laugh in my face, With ale that is potent and mellow; He that whines for a lass Is an ignorant ass, For a bumper has not its fellow.
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What, to betray me, to marry me to a cast serving-man; to make me a receptacle, an hospital for a decayed pimp?
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What, a whore?