Vulgar words in Becket and other plays (Page 1)

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bastard x 5
damn x 3
slut x 1
            

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A sane and natural loathing for a soul Purer, and truer and nobler than herself; And mine a bitterer illegitimate hate, A bastard hate born of a former love.

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Why should this Rome, this Rome, Still choose Barabbas rather than the Christ, Absolve the left-hand thief and damn the right?

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We can't all of us be as pretty as thou art--(_aside_) little bastard.

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But since the fondest pair of doves will jar, Ev'n in a cage of gold, we had words of late, And thereupon he call'd my children bastards.

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Then is thy pretty boy a bastard?

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This in thy bosom, fool, And after in thy bastard's!

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More gain than loss; for of your wives you shall Find one a slut whose fairest linen seems Foul as her dust-cloth, if she used it--one So charged with tongue, that every thread of thought Is broken ere it joins--a shrew to boot, Whose evil song far on into the night Thrills to the topmost tile--no hope but death; One slow, fat, white, a burthen of the hearth; And one that being thwarted ever swoons And weeps herself into the place of power; And one an _uxor pauperis Ibyci_.

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Oh, do not damn yourself for company!

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Damn all gentlemen, says I!

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