Vulgar words in Volpone; Or, the Fox (Page 1)
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Another comedy of less merit is "The Devil is an Ass," acted in 1616.
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This volume published, in a carefully revised text, all the plays thus far mentioned, excepting "The Case is Altered," which Jonson did not acknowledge, "Bartholomew Fair," and "The Devil is an Ass," which was written too late.
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except to a mimic, cheater, bawd, or buffoon, creatures, for their insolencies, worthy to be taxed?
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From Pythagore, she went into a beautiful piece, Hight Aspasia, the meretrix; and the next toss of her Was again of a whore, she became a philosopher, Crates the cynick, as it self doth relate it: Since kings, knights, and beggars, knaves, lords and fools gat it, Besides, ox and ass, camel, mule, goat, and brock, In all which it hath spoke, as in the cobler's cock.
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AND: Into a very strange beast, by some writers call'd an ass; By others, a precise, pure, illuminate brother, Of those devour flesh, and sometimes one another; And will drop you forth a libel, or a sanctified lie, Betwixt every spoonful of a nativity pie.
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Hood an ass with reverend purple, So you can hide his two ambitious ears, And he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
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MOS: Your worship is a precious ass!
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MOS: Bastards, Some dozen, or more, that he begot on beggars, Gipsies, and Jews, and black-moors, when he was drunk.
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For, if you thought me an Italian, You would be damn'd, ere you did this, you whore!
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Away, and be not seen, pain of thy life; Nor look toward the window: if thou dost-- Nay, stay, hear this--let me not prosper, whore, But I will make thee an anatomy, Dissect thee mine own self, and read a lecture Upon thee to the city, and in public.
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that damn'd mountebank; but for the law Now, I could kill the rascal: it cannot be, His oil should have that virtue.
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Have not I Known him a common rogue, come fidling in To the osteria, with a tumbling whore, And, when he has done all his forced tricks, been glad Of a poor spoonful of dead wine, with flies in't?
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This very minute, It is, or will be doing; and, if you Shall be but pleas'd to go with me, I'll bring you, I dare not say where you shall see, but where Your ear shall be a witness of the deed; Hear yourself written bastard; and profest The common issue of the earth.
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CEL: Sir, kill me, rather: I will take down poison, Eat burning coals, do any thing.-- CORV: Be damn'd!
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Whore, crocodile, that hast thy tears prepared, Expecting how thou'lt bid them flow-- MOS: Nay, 'Pray you, sir!
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CORV: This woman, please your fatherhoods, is a whore, Of most hot exercise, more than a partrich, Upon record-- 1 AVOC: No more.
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CORV: Or if I said, I hoped that she were onward To her damnation, if there be a hell Greater than whore and woman; a good catholic May make the doubt.
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I crave your care of this good gentleman, Whose life is much endanger'd by their fable; And as for them, I will conclude with this, That vicious persons, when they're hot and flesh'd In impious acts, their constancy abounds: Damn'd deeds are done with greatest confidence.
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Hear you; do not you know, I know you an ass, And that you would most fain have been a wittol, If fortune would have let you?
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ANTIC, ANTIQUE, clown, buffoon.
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ANTIC, like a buffoon.
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APPLE-JOHN, APPLE-SQUIRE, pimp, pander.
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BY-CHOP, by-blow, bastard.
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COTQUEAN, hussy.
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DILDO, refrain of popular songs; vague term of low meaning.
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GOOSE-TURD, colour of.
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(See Turd).
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JOLTHEAD, blockhead.
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NOWT-HEAD, blockhead.
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QUEAN, hussy, jade.
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SLIP, counterfeit coin, bastard.
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SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol.
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TURD, excrement.
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VICE, the buffoon of old moralities; some kind of machinery for moving a puppet (Gifford).