Vulgar words in The Alchemist (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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Our scene is London, 'cause we would make known, No country's mirth is better than our own: No clime breeds better matter for your whore, Bawd, squire, impostor, many persons more, Whose manners, now call'd humours, feed the stage; And which have still been subject for the rage Or spleen of comic writers.
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I fart at thee.
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he was an ass, And dealt, sir, with a fool.
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This is my friend, Abel, an honest fellow; He lets me have good tobacco, and he does not Sophisticate it with sack-lees or oil, Nor washes it in muscadel and grains, Nor buries it in gravel, under ground, Wrapp'd up in greasy leather, or piss'd clouts: But keeps it in fine lily pots, that, open'd, Smell like conserve of roses, or French beans.
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But if my eyes do cozen me so, and I Giving them no occasion, sure I'll have A whore, shall piss them out next day.
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My mere fools, Eloquent burgesses, and then my poets The same that writ so subtly of the fart, Whom I will entertain still for that subject.
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-- To be an ass.
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Of your elixir, your lac virginis, Your stone, your med'cine, and your chrysosperm, Your sal, your sulphur, and your mercury, Your oil of height, your tree of life, your blood, Your marchesite, your tutie, your magnesia, Your toad, your crow, your dragon, and your panther; Your sun, your moon, your firmament, your adrop, Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit, And then your red man, and your white woman, With all your broths, your menstrues, and materials, Of piss and egg-shells, women's terms, man's blood, Hair o' the head, burnt clouts, chalk, merds, and clay, Powder of bones, scalings of iron, glass, And worlds of other strange ingredients, Would burst a man to name?
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I urg'd that, And clear'd to him, that Sisyphus was damn'd To roll the ceaseless stone, only because He would have made Ours common.
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Yes, as you are, And trust confederate knaves and bawds and whores.
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I was a stark pimp, Just of your standing, 'fore I met with him; It is not two months since.
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Perhaps some Fleming or some Hollander got him In d'Alva's time; count Egmont's bastard.
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Much good joy, and health to you, sir, Marry a whore!
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Yes, and have The citizens gape at her, and praise her tires, And my lord's goose-turd bands, that ride with her!
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Ass, my suster.
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Donzel, methinks you look melancholic, After your coitum, and scurvy: truly, I do not like the dulness of your eye; It hath a heavy cast, 'tis upsee Dutch, And says you are a lumpish whore-master.
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he is a slave, Whate'er he is, and the son of a whore.
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And he has damn'd himself three terms to pay me.
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I will: - Sir, if you get not out of doors, you lie; And you are a pimp.
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It is my humour: you are a pimp and a trig, And an Amadis de Gaul, or a Don Quixote.
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You are a whore To keep your castle -- FACE.
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Here, I find The empty walls worse than I left them, smoak'd, A few crack'd pots, and glasses, and a furnace: The ceiling fill'd with poesies of the candle, And madam with a dildo writ o' the walls: Only one gentlewoman, I met here, That is within, that said she was a widow -- KAS.
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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).