Vulgar words in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 (Page 1)
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A brat, a bastard, and an idle boy: A[38] rod, a staff, a whip to beat him out!
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For fear of death can princes entertain Such bastard thoughts, that now from glorious arms Vouchsafe to draw like oxen in a plough?
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Thou art, and ever was, A means to mend an ass; Thou makest some to sleep, And many mo to weep, And some be glad and merry, With heigh down derry, derry.
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an arrant knave or an arrant whore?
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O, the shepherd's bastard?
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I tell you, the shepherd's bastard shall be well kept; I'll look to it myself.
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What an ass are you; here's a stir indeed, here's message, arrant, banishment, and I cannot tell what.
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You lie like an old--I will not say whore.
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Dost thou call me whore?
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Why, what a swearing keeps this drunken ass?
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She's a whore, then.
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One of his whores.
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Rough wrathful words Are bastards got by rashness in the thoughts: Fair demeanours are virtue's nuptial babes, The offspring of the well-instructed soul; O, let them call thee mother, then, my wife!
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This was one of this penny-father's[268] bastards, For, on my life, he was never[269] begot Without the consent of some great proverb-monger.
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Fill the pot, hostess; swouns, you whore!
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Frank, Frank, I come through dangers, death, and harms, To make love's patent[325] with my[326] seal of arms.
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O, let me alone to grope for cunnies.
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nay, then, Sir Ralph, so whore!
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For a whore she was sure, if you had her here So late.
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Where have ye been a-whoring thus late, ha?
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[394], out, you fat ass!
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Owl, ye ass!
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Ass!
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Away, ye ass!
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An ass goes a four legs; I go of two, Christ cross.
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If they do so, faith, westward[454] then with Skink But what an ass am I to be thus fond!
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Be silent, ass.
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God's mother, ass and fool for speaking truth!
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Fool, ass, for speaking truth!
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[455] Cruel Elinor, Your savage mother, my uncivil queen: The tigress, that hath drunk the purple blood Of three times twenty thousand valiant men; Washing her red chaps in the weeping tears Of widows, virgins, nurses, sucking babes; And lastly, sorted with her damn'd consorts, Ent'red a labyrinth to murther love.
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Porter, what, porter, where's this drowsy ass?
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I hold my birthright to a beggar's scrip, The bastard is escaped in my clothes.
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I hear thee, Henry, and I thus reply: I do desire the death of bastard Gloster, For that he spends the Treasure of the Crown; I do desire the death of bastard Gloster, For that he doth desire to pull me down.
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Your dear son Jack-an-apes; Your monkey, your baboon, your ass, your gull!
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Ay, I'll be one, in hope to meet the bastard, And then no more: myself will be his headsman.
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A shame confound thee for thy treachery, Inconstant dotard, timorous old ass, That shakes with cowardice, not with years.
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Go hang, ye blockheads, get ye from my sight!
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Truly, truly, he does not as beseems a gentleman of his calling; pray, let some go forth to meet him on the green, and send in that blockhead Block.
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Will ye tell tales, ye ass, will ye?
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No matter where; I think I was fore-spoken at the teat, This damn'd rogue serv'd me thus!