Vulgar words in A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
blockhead x 1
whore x 11
            

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"we." p. 119, 7 from bottom, for "she doth preferd doth see," read "she thus preferd," &c. p. 142, 9 from bottom, for "vouchsafed," read "vouchsafe." p. 154, l. 19, for "There they are," read "I, here they are." p. 190, l. 24, for "woman" read "women." p. 194, l. 12, for "unwist," read "unjust." p. 228, last line, for "Equire," read "Squire." p, 258, l. 29, for "1639," read "1612." p. 274, l. 16, for "whore," read "whore's;" and in the next line, for "sunnes," read "sinnes." p. 276, l. 4, after "Do not my Dons know," add "me." p. 281, 4 from bottom, for "wo," read "two." p. 311, l. 12, for "sol-Re-fa-mi," read "sol-Re-me-fa-mi."

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sure you cannot Be so ignoble, if you thinke me worthy To be your wife at least, to turne _Eleonora_ Into a whore.

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had you left in _France_ Your whore behind you, in your Table bookes You would have sett downe the streets very name, Yes, and the baudy signe, too.

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She's a whore.

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I'de not have Her belly a drum, such as they weave points on, Unles they be taggd with vertue; nor would I have Her white round breasts 2 sucking bottles to nurse Any Bastards at them.

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Nothing, but only to informe you what You know to well alreadie: _Belisia_, you are --(I cannot call her whore)--a perjurd woman.

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a dog: a whore had byn more secreat, A common whore a closer Cabinet.

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Be ruld, and live like a fine gentleman That may have haukes and hounds and whores and horses, And then thou art fitt Companie.

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[173] The Dutch word _knol_ signifies both a turnip and a blockhead.

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[269] So in Dekker & Middleton's _First Part of the Honest Whore_ (IV.

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2): "Fortune's a scurvy whore if she makes not my head sound like a rattle and my heels dance the canaries."

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