Vulgar words in Much Ado about Nothing (Page 1)

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ass x 8
bastard x 3
            

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Don John, his bastard brother.

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Two of them have the very bent of honour; And if their wisdoms be misled in this, The practice of it lives in John the bastard, Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.

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you are an ass, you are an ass.

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Dost thou not suspect my years?--O that he were here to write me down, an ass!

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but, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass:--No, thou villain, thou art full of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.

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O, that I had been writ down, an ass!

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you know my mind; I will leave you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests as braggarts do their blades, which, God be thanked, hurt not.--My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you: I must discontinue your company: your brother, the bastard, is fled from Messina: you have, among you killed a sweet and innocent lady: For my Lord Lack-beard there, he and I shall meet; and till then peace be with him.

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Come, bring away the plaintiffs; By this time our sexton hath reformed signior Leonato of the matter: And, masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.

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Moreover, sir, (which indeed is not under white and black,) this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his punishment: And also the watch heard them talk of one Deformed: they say, he wears a key in his ear, and a lock hanging by it; and borrows money in God's name, the which he hath used so long and never paid, that now men grow hard-hearted, and will lend nothing for God's sake: Pray you, examine him upon that point.

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