Vulgar words in King Lear (Page 1)
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Edmund, bastard son to Gloucester.
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Enter [Edmund the] Bastard solus, [with a letter].
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Why bastard?
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Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund As to th' legitimate.
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Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
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An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!
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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' th' middle and gav'st away both parts, thou bor'st thine ass on thy back o'er the dirt.
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May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?
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Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee; Yet have I left a daughter.
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Enter [Edmund the] Bastard and Curan, meeting.
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He replied, 'Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think, If I would stand against thee, would the reposal Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee Make thy words faith'd?
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Fortune, that arrant whore, Ne'er turns the key to th' poor.
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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' th' field, And bawds and whores do churches build: Then shall the realm of Albion Come to great confusion.
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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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Enter Cornwall, Regan, Goneril, [Edmund the] Bastard, and Servants.
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Enter Goneril and [Edmund the] Bastard.
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Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester'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 Gloucester.