Vulgar words in The Duchess of Malfi (Page 1)
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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.
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Read there,--a sister damn'd: she 's loose i' the hilts;<68> Grown a notorious strumpet.
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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.
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'Tis not your whore's milk that shall quench my wild-fire, But your whore's blood.
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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.
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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.
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Sir, uncertainly: 'Tis rumour'd she hath had three bastards, but By whom we may go read i' the stars.
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I came hither prepar'd To work thy discovery; yet am now persuaded It would beget such violent effects As would damn us both.
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Call them your children; For though our national law distinguish bastards >From true legitimate issue, compassionate nature Makes them all equal.
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Damn her!
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He that drinks but to satisfy nature is damn'd.
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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.