Vulgar words in The Maids Tragedy (Page 1)

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My looks terrifie them, you Coxcombly Ass you!

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Nay, I know you can fight for your Whore.

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up you young Lazie Whores, up or I'le sweng you.

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There's a Rogue too, A young dissembling slave; well, get you in, I'le have a bout with that boy; 'tis high time Now to be valiant; I confess my youth Was never prone that way: what, made an Ass?

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Thou that dar'st talk unto thy Husband thus, Profess thy self a Whore; and more than so, Resolve to be so still; it is my fate To bear and bow beneath a thousand griefs, To keep that little credit with the World.

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She's wanton; I am loth to say a Whore, Though it be true.

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After mine actions, shall the name of friend Blot all our family, and strike the brand Of Whore upon my Sister unreveng'd?

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I do believe my Sister is a Whore, A Leprous one, put up thy sword young man.

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Quench me this mighty humour, and then tell me Whose Whore you are, for you are one, I know it.

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Y'are grown a glorious Whore; where be your Fighters?

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Forsake me then all weaknesses of Nature, That make men women: Speak you whore, speak truth, Or by the dear soul of thy sleeping Father, This sword shall be thy lover: tell, or I'le kill thee: And when thou hast told all, thou wilt deserve it.

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Y'are valiant in his bed, and bold enough To be a stale whore, and have your Madams name Discourse for Grooms and Pages, and hereafter When his cool Majestie hath laid you by, To be at pension with some needy Sir For meat and courser clothes, thus far you know no fear.

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_Diagoras_ knows he raged, and rail'd at me, And cal'd a Lady Whore, so innocent She understood him not; but it becomes Both you and me too, to forgive distraction, Pardon him as I do.

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do but take his weapons from him, And he's an Ass, and I am a very fool, Both with him, and without him, as you use me.

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Thy Brother, Whil'st he was good, I call'd him King, and serv'd him With that strong faith, that most unwearied valour; Pul'd people from the farthest Sun to seek him; And by his friendship, I was then his souldier; But since his hot pride drew him to disgrace me, And brand my noble actions with his lust, (That never cur'd dishonour of my Sister, Base stain of Whore; and which is worse, The joy to make it still so) like my self; Thus have I flung him off with my allegiance, And stand here mine own justice to revenge What I have suffered in him; and this old man Wrong'd almost to lunacy.

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A _omits_] what, made an Ass.

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