Vulgar words in Measure for Measure (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
whore x 5
            

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Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needes buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall haue all the world drinke browne & white bastard Duk.

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He must before the Deputy Sir, he ha's giuen him warning: the Deputy cannot abide a Whore-master: if he be a Whore-monger, and comes before him, he were as good go a mile on his errand Duke.

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Euer your fresh Whore, and your pouder'd Baud, an vnshun'd consequence, it must be so.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 920   ~   ~   ~

Ere he would haue hang'd a man for the getting a hundred Bastards, he would haue paide for the Nursing a thousand.

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Painting Sir, I haue heard say, is a Misterie; and your Whores sir, being members of my occupation, vsing painting, do proue my Occupation, a Misterie: but what Misterie there should be in hanging, if I should be hang'd, I cannot imagine Abh.

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I beseech your Highnesse doe not marry me to a Whore: your Highnesse said euen now I made you a Duke, good my Lord do not recompence me, in making me a Cuckold Duke.

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