Vulgar words in The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) (Page 1)
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It was Pepin's bastard, Charles the Hammer, whose tremendous blows completed his father's work.
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He was called Erasmus for his errors--Arasmus because he would plough up sacred things--Erasmus because he had written himself an ass--Behemoth, Antichrist, and many other names of similar import.
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Each chamber had its treasurer, its buffoon, and its standard-bearer for public processions.
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The wretched profligate who was thus selected to mate with the Emperor's eldest born child and to appropriate the fair demesnes of the Tuscan republic was nominally the offspring of Lorenzo de Medici by a Moorish slave, although generally reputed a bastard of the Pope himself.
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Farces were enacted in every street; the odious ecclesiastics figuring as the principal buffoons.
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He had been wont, in the days of his greatest insolence, to speak of the most eminent nobles as zanies, lunatics, and buffoons.
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He had no inclination, as long as he remained on the ground at all, to part with those emoluments and honors, and to be converted merely into the "ass of the state-council."
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This "quidam," as she called him--for his name was beneath the cognizance of an Emperor's bastard daughter--had by her orders received rigorous and exemplary justice.