Vulgar words in The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry (Page 1)
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Off goes the rogue, and leaves me in despair, Tied to the altar, with the knife in air: When, by rare chance, the plaintiff in the suit Knocks up against us: "Whither now, you brute?"
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T. Better do this than gall with keen lampoon Cassius the rake and Maenius the buffoon, When each one, though with withers yet unwrung, Fears for himself, and hates your bitter tongue.
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First speaks the pimp: 'Whatever I or these Possess, is yours: command it when you please.'
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Tell me true, Whose words you think the wiser of the two, Or hear (to listen is a junior's place) Why Aristippus has the better case; For he, the story goes, with this remark Once stopped the Cynic's aggravating bark: "Buffoon I may be, but I ply my trade For solid value; you ply yours unpaid.
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He'd eye the mob more keenly than the shows, And find less food for sport in these than those; While the poor authors--he'd suppose their play Addressed to a deaf ass that can but bray.
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In plays like these I would not deal alone In words and phrases trite and too well known, Nor, stooping from the tragic height, drop down To the low level of buffoon and clown, As though pert Davus, or the saucy jade Who sacks the gold and jeers the gull she made, Were like Silenus, who, though quaint and odd, Is yet the guide and tutor of a god.
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Cassius the rake, and Maenius the buffoon.