Vulgar words in The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III (Page 2)
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I say, _Cato_ was an Ass, Sir, for obliging any young Rogue of 'em all.
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what's the matter you look so like an Ass, what have you lost?
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Ay, ay, the Plot's discovered, what shall I do?--Why, the Devil is not in her sure, to be refractory now, and peevish; if she be, I must pay my Money yet--and that would be a damn'd thing.--sure they're coming out--I'll retire and hearken how 'tis with them.
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No, no, thou deservest her; she would have made an old fond Blockhead of me, and one way or other you wou'd have had her--ods bobs, you wou'd-- _Enter_ Bearjest, Diana, Pert, Bredwel, _and_ Noisey.
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from the left-handed blow Of airy Blockheads who pretend to know.
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Because I see another rais'd above me; Let him be great, and damn'd with all his Greatness.
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Pox on't, this Change will spoil our making Love, We must be sad, and follow the Court-Mode: My life on't, you'll see desperate doings here; The Eagle will not part so with his Prey; _Erminia_ was not gain'd so easily, To be resign'd so tamely.--But come, my Lord, This will not satisfy our appetites, Let's in to Dinner, and when warm with Wine, We shall be fitter for a new Design.
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Thou never-to-be-reclaim'd Ass, shall I never Bring thee to apprehend as thou ought'st?
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Nay, thou hast a hard task on't, to make Vows to all the Women he makes love to; Indeed I pity thee; ha, ha, ha.
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Faith, Madam, that's his way of making love.
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He's damn'd will lose a moment on't for you.
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I never thought thou'dst been so great a Villain, To urge me to a crime would damn us all; Why dost thou smile, hast thou done well in this?
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He call'd me Spy, and I return'd th'affront, But took no notice that he was my Prince: It was a Folly I repented of; But 'twas in a damn'd melancholy Mood.
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Beat thee till thou confess thou art an Ass, And on thy knees confess it to _Isillia_, Who after that shall scorn thee.
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Faith, very suddenly, for I think it will not be Hard to find men of your trade, Men that will fight as long as you can do, And Men that love it much better than I, Men that are poor and damn'd, fine desperate Rogues, Rascals that for a Pattacoon a Man Will fight their Fathers, And kiss their Mothers into peace again: Such, Sir, I think will fit you.
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Thou should'st be damn'd e'er disobey thy Mistress.
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These be degrees of Love I am not yet arriv'd at; When I am, I shall be as ready to be damn'd In honour as any Lover of you all.
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Madam, I have so lately 'scap'd a scouring, That I wish you would take it for a mark Of my Passion to disobey you; For he is in a damn'd humour.
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Come, now a tear or two to second that, And I am soft again, a very Ass.
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No, then like the damn'd Ghost it follows me.
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Preserve thy Soul, if thou hast any sense Of future Joys, after this vile damn'd Action.
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Let me be damn'd as thou art, if I do; [_Throws her on a Bed, he sits down in a Chair_.
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--'Twas I that murder'd her-- Thou lyest--thou durst as well be damn'd as touch her, She was all sacred; and that impious Hand That had profanely touch'd her, Had wither'd from the Body.
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Falatius_, Sir, has long made love t' _Isillia_, And now he'as gain'd her Heart, he slights the Conquest, Yet all the fault he finds is that she's poor.
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I then should make love elsewhere.
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I am sensible, my Lord, how far the Word Farce might have offended some, whose Titles of Honour, a Knack in dressing, or his Art in writing a Billet Doux, had been his chiefest Talent, and who, without considering the Intent, Character, or Nature of the thing, wou'd have cry'd out upon the Language, and have damn'd it (because the Persons in it did not all talk like Heros) as too debas'd and vulgar as to entertain a Man of Quality; but I am secure from this Censure, when your Lordship shall be its Judge, whose refin'd Sence, and Delicacy of Judgment, will, thro' all the humble Actions and trivialness of Business, find Nature there, and that Diversion which was not meant for the Numbers, who comprehend nothing beyond the Show and Buffoonry.
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So Spark in an Intrigue of Quality, Grows weary of his splendid Drudgery; Hates the Fatigue, and cries a Pox upon her, What a damn'd Bustle's here with Love and Honour?
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In humbler Comedy we next appear, No Fop or Cuckold, but slap-dash we had him here; We showed you all, but you malicious grown, | Friends Vices to expose, and hide your own; | Cry, damn it--This is such, or such a one.
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With his damn'd Characters, and Plot obscene.
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So there you'll save a Sice, | You love good Husbandry in all but Vice; | Whoring and drinking only bears a Price.
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Why, what a laborious thing it is to be a Pimp?
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Bring 'em to me, And I'll convert that Coxcomb, and that Blockhead, into Your Honour and Right-Worshipful.
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Yes, Madam, to your shame: Now your Perfidiousness is plain, false Woman, 'Tis well your Lover had the dexterity of escaping, I'ad spoil'd his making Love else.
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Ay, we that spend our Lives and Fortunes here to serve you,--to be us'd like Pimps and Scoundrels.
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That's according to the Disposition of your Lover, for some believe you most, when you most abuse and cheat 'em; some are so obstinate, they wou'd damn a Woman with Protesting, before she can convince 'em.
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we shall have time enough for that hereafter; besides, you may make Love in Dancing as well as in Sitting; you may gaze, sigh, and press the Hand, and now and then receive a Kiss, what wou'd you more?
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'tis so, a she Pimp.
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I must get in with this damn'd Mistress of mine, or all our Plot will be spoil'd for want of Intelligence.
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The Devil's in't, if either the Doctor, my Master, or _Mopsophil_, know me in this Disguise--And thus I may not only gain my Mistress, and out-wit _Harlequin_, but deliver the Ladies those Letters from their Lovers, which I took out of his Pocket this Morning; and who wou'd suspect an Apothecary for a Pimp?--Nor can the Jade _Mopsophil_, in Honour, refuse a Person of my Gravity, and so well set up.-- [_Pointing to his Shop_.
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And I wou'd sooner wed that Scoundrel _Scaramouch_, that very civil Pimp, that mere pair of chymical Bellows that blow the Doctor's projecting Fires, that Deputy-urinal Shaker, that very Guzman of _Salamanca_.
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Those Lanthorn Jaws of yours, with that most villanous Sneer and Grin, and a certain fierce Air of your Eyes, looks altogether most fanatically--which with your notorious Whey Beard, are certain Signs of Knavery and Cowardice; therefore I'ad rather wed that Spider _Harlequin_, that Sceleton Buffoon, that Ape of Man, that Jack of Lent, that very Top, that's of no use, but when 'tis whip'd and lash'd, that piteous Property I'ad rather wed than thee.
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Ever since you turn'd Farmer.--Are not you a damn'd Rogue to put these Tricks upon me, and most dishonourably break all Articles between us?
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As for the young Fellows that have Money, they have no Mercy upon their own Persons, but wearing Nature off as fast as they can, Swear, and Whore and Drink, and borrow as long as any Rooking Citizen will lend till, having dearly purchased the heroick Title of a Bully or a Sharper, they live pity'd of their Friends, and despis'd by their Whores, and depart this Transitory World, diverse and sundry ways.
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There he is again with his damn'd hard Questions.
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No more your nice fantastick Pleasures serve, Your Pimps you pay, but let your Poets starve, They long in vain for better Usage hop'd, Till quite undone and tir'd, they dropt and dropt; Not one is left will write for thin third Day, Like desperate Pickeroons, no Prize no Pay; And when they have done their best, the Recompence Is, Damn the Sot, his Play wants common Sense, Ill-natured Wits, who can so ill requite The drudging Slaves, who for your Pleasure write.
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p. 69 _She cries Whore first_.
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As early as 1678 'Crack' is the proper name of a whore in _Tunbridge Wells_, an anonymous comedy played at the Duke's House, cf.
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Farquhar, _Love and a Bottle_ (1698), Act v, ii, has: 'You imagine I have got your whore, cousin, your crack.'
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Dryden's bitter jibe--_Absalom and Achitophel_ (November, 1681), I, 575:-- And canting Nadab let oblivion damn, Who made new porridge for the paschal lamb.
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Nahum Tate has a farce, borrowed from _Eastward Hoe_ and _The Devil's an Ass_, entitled _Cuckold's Haven; or, An Alderman no Conjuror_ (1685).
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A whore.'
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Also _Timon of Athens_, iv, III: 'Be a whore still' ... p. 279 _Jack Ketch_.
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To Salisbury Court we'll hurry you next week Where not for whores, but coaches you may seek; And more to plague you, there shall be no Play, But the Emperor of the Moon for every day.