Vulgar words in The Poetaster (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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Here, take my snakes among you, come and eat, And while the squeez'd juice flows in your black jaws, Help me to damn the author.
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Nay, this 'tis to have your ears damn'd up to good counsel.
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and have flung jests As hard as stones, till thou hadst pelted him Out of the place; whilst my tame modesty Suffers my wit be made a solemn ass, To bear his fopperies-- [Aside.
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]-Of his licentious goodness,-Willing to make this feast no fast-From any manner of pleasure;-Nor to bind any god or goddess-To be any thing the more god or goddess, for their names:-He gives them all free license-To speak no wiser than persons of baser titles;-And to be nothing better, than common men, or women.-And therefore no god-Shall need to keep himself more strictly to his goddess-Than any man does to his wife:-Nor any goddess-Shall need to keep herself more strictly to her god-Than any woman does to her husband.-But, since it is no part of wisdom,-In these days, to come into bonds;-It shall be lawful for every lover-To break loving oaths,-To change their lovers, and make love to others,-As the heat of every one's blood,-And the spirit of our nectar, shall inspire.-And Jupiter save Jupiter!
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Why, ay, you whoreson blockhead, 'tis your only block of wit in fashion now-a-days, to applaud other folks' jests.
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Preying upon the carcass of an ass- Lup.
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dost thou stand upon it, pimp!
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There's a father will not deny his own bastard now, I warrant thee.
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And, for his true use of translating men, It still hath been a work of as much palm, In clearest judgments, as to invent or make, His sharpness,--that is most excusable; As being forced out of a suffering virtue, Oppressed with the license of the time:-- And howsoever fools or jerking pedants, Players, or suchlike buffoon barking wits, May with their beggarly and barren trash Tickle base vulgar ears, in their despite; This, like Jove's thunder, shall their pride control, "The honest satire hath the happiest soul."
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Blush, folly, blush; here's none that fears The wagging of an ass's ears, Although a wolfish case he wears.
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If all the salt in the old comedy Should be so censured, or the sharper wit Of the bold satire termed scolding rage, What age could then compare with those for buffoons?
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O, this would make a learn'd and liberal soul To rive his stained quill up to the back, And damn his long-watch'd labours to the fire, Things that were born when none but the still night And his dumb candle, saw his pinching throes, Were not his own free merit a more crown Unto his travails than their reeling claps.
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There's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw, and the dun ass's hoof Nas.
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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).