Vulgar words in The Duchess of Malfi (Page 1)

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bastard x 4
damn x 7
whore x 4
            

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There 's no more credit to be given to the face Than to a sick man's urine, which some call The physician's whore, because she cozens<15> him.

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Whores by that rule are precious.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 968   ~   ~   ~

Read there,--a sister damn'd: she 's loose i' the hilts;<68> Grown a notorious strumpet.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 990   ~   ~   ~

There is a kind of pity in mine eye,-- I 'll give it to my handkercher; and now 'tis here, I 'll bequeath this to her bastard.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,012   ~   ~   ~

'Tis not your whore's milk that shall quench my wild-fire, But your whore's blood.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,030   ~   ~   ~

I would have their bodies Burnt in a coal-pit with the ventage stopp'd, That their curs'd smoke might not ascend to heaven; Or dip the sheets they lie in in pitch or sulphur, Wrap them in 't, and then light them like a match; Or else to-boil<71> their bastard to a cullis, And give 't his lecherous father to renew The sin of his back.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,035   ~   ~   ~

I am confident, had I been damn'd in hell, And should have heard of this, it would have put me Into a cold sweat.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,098   ~   ~   ~

Sir, uncertainly: 'Tis rumour'd she hath had three bastards, but By whom we may go read i' the stars.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,229   ~   ~   ~

I came hither prepar'd To work thy discovery; yet am now persuaded It would beget such violent effects As would damn us both.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,723   ~   ~   ~

Call them your children; For though our national law distinguish bastards >From true legitimate issue, compassionate nature Makes them all equal.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,818   ~   ~   ~

Damn her!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,906   ~   ~   ~

He that drinks but to satisfy nature is damn'd.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,053   ~   ~   ~

O, you are damn'd Perpetually for this!

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If you kill me now, I am damn'd; I have not been at confession This two years.

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