Vulgar words in King Lear (Page 1)
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Edmund, Bastard Son to Gloster.
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Why bastard?
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Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep and wake?--Well then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund As to the legitimate: fine word--legitimate!
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I grow; I prosper.-- Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
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Mark it, nuncle:-- Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest; Leave thy drink and thy whore, And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score.
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When thou clovest thy crown i' the middle and gav'st away both parts, thou borest thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away.
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May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?--Whoop, Jug!
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Darkness and devils!-- Saddle my horses; call my train together.-- Degenerate bastard!
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When I dissuaded him from his intent, And found him pight to do it, with curst speech I threaten'd to discover him: he replied, 'Thou unpossessing bastard!
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Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th' poor.
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This is a brave night to cool a courtezan.-- I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:-- When priests are more in word than matter; When brewers mar their malt with water; When nobles are their tailors' tutors; No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors; When every case in law is right; No squire in debt nor no poor knight; When slanders do not live in tongues; Nor cutpurses come not to throngs; When usurers tell their gold i' the field; And bawds and whores do churches build;-- Then shall the realm of Albion Come to great confusion: Then comes the time, who lives to see't, That going shall be us'd with feet.
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He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.
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Let copulation thrive; for Gloster's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
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Why dost thou lash that whore?
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As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloster.