Vulgar words in A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 (Page 1)
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By Thomas Heywood The Costlie Whore.
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Hadst thou nam'd blood and damn'd iniquitie, I had forborne to bight so bitterlie.
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Why, let her weepe, lament and morne for me, We are right bred of damn'd iniquitie, And will go make a two-folde Tragedie.
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God will revenge this damn'd iniquitie.
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He, he it was, that with foure hundredth markes, Whereof two hundred he paide presently, Did hire[30] this damn'd villaine and my selfe To massacre this harmelesse innocent: But yet my conscience, toucht with some remorse, Would faine have sav'd the young _Pertillos_ life, But he remorselesse would not let him live, But unawares thrust in his harmelesse brest That life-bereaving fatall instrument: Which cruell deede I seeking to revenge, Have lost my life and paid the slave his due Rewarde for spilling blood of innocents.
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Bring in those bodyes, it growes towards night; God bring these damn'd murtherers at length to light!
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I never like such damn'd hipocrisie.
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They call this place _Marcellis_ Roade, the cheiff haven towne in _France_, but hee keepes a road[50] in his oune howse wherein have ridd and bin ridd more leakinge vessayles, more panderly pinks,[51] pimps and punkes, more rotten bottoms ballanst, more fly-boates[52] laden and unladen every morninge and evenning tyde then weare able to fill the huge greate baye of _Portingall_.
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I doo protest she spoyles my family And rather growne a hyndrance to my trade Then benefitt; so that, if not to losse, I wishe that I were clerly ridd of her, For shee hathe gott a trick to[55] my whores; And such as of themselves are impudent, When shee but coms in presens she makes blushe, As if ashamd of what they late had doon Or are about to doo.
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whores and bawdes May lyve in every corner of the woorld, We knowe tis full of sinners.
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Go to the bench for judgment and to the lawe courts for counsell, I am free of neather, only one of _Neptunes_ poore bastards, a spawne of the sea, and nowe gladly desyres to be rydd of thee aland.
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Are your legges growne so feeble on the suddeine They feyle when you shoold travell to your whores, But you must bringe them home and keepe them heere Under my nose?
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INTRODUCTION TO THE COSTLIE WHORE.
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_The Costlie Whore_, though not of the highest rarity, is a scarce play.
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I am inclined to think that these passages, taken collectively, afford strong proof that _The Costlie Whore_ was written in 1613--twenty years before the date of publication.
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THE COSTLIE WHORE.
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_Valentia_, the Costly _Whore_.
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THE COSTLY _WHORE_.
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When[210] I am no bastard, wherefore should I feare?
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Thou art a witch, a damn'd sorceresse, No goddesse, but the goddesse of blacke hell, And all those devils thy followers.
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Sure this Villaine has no soule, and for gold Heele damn his body too, hee's at peace with hell And brings his Merchandise from thence to sell.
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There, there my fine fil-pots; give the word as you passe; anon, anon, sir anon; heere and there in the twinckling, looke well at the barre, there again my little Mercuries, froath them up to the brimme, and fill as tis needeful; if their Pates be full of Wine let your Pottles be three quarters; trip and goe, here and there; now, my brave Lad, wash thy woundes with good Wine; bidde am welcom, my little Sybil; put sugar in his hole there, I must in to my guests; sleepe soundly till morning; Canarie is a Jewell, and a Figge for Browne-bastard.
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Base, slid, I cannot tel if it were as base as a sagbut, ile be sworne tis as common as a whore, tis even as common to see a Bason at a Church doore, as a Box at a Playhouse.
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William Tyndale in his _Practyse of Prelates_, 1530, relates the wild legend of Charlemagne's dotage:--"And beyond all that, the saying is that in his old age a whore had so bewitched him with a ring and a pearl in it and I wot not what imagery graven therein, that he went a salt after her as a dog after a bitch and the dotehead was beside himself and whole out of his mind: insomuch that when the whore was dead he could not depart from the dead corpse but caused it to be embalmed and to be carried with him whithersoever he went, so that all the world wondered at him; till at the last his lords accombered with carrying her from place to place and ashamed that so old a man, so great an emperor, and such a most Christian king, on whom and on whose deeds every man's eyes were set, should dote on a dead whore, took counsel what should be the cause: and it was concluded that it must needs be by enchantment.
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Anything for a quiett lyfe Aphorisme Aporn Apple-squier Arch-pillers Argentum potabile Artillery Garden Artire Ascapart Assoyle Bables Babyes Back side Bacon, Roger Baffeld ( = treated ignominiously) Bainardes Castle Bale of dice Bandogs Banks' horse Bantam Barleybreak Basolas manos Basses Bastard Bavyn Bayting Beare a braine Beetle Bermudas Berwick, pacification of Besognio Best hand, buy at the Bezoar Bilbo mettle Biron, Maréchal de Bisseling Blacke and blewe Blacke gard Black Jacks Bob'd Bombards _Bonos nocthus_ Booke ("Williams craves his booke") Borachos Bossed Bottom, Brass, coinage of Braule Braunched Braves Bree Broad cloth, exportation of Brond Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted Browne-bastard Build a sconce.--See Sconce Bull (the executioner) Bullets wrapt in fire Bullyes Bumbarrels Bu'oy Burnt Buskes Busse, the (Hertogenbosch taken in 1629, after a memorable siege, by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange) Cage (prison) Cales _Calisto_, MS. play composed of scenes from Heywood's _Golden Age and Silver Age_ Canaries Cap-case Carack Carbonado Cardeq Cardicue Caroach Carrackes Carry coals Case Cast-of Merlins Castrell Catamountaine Cater-trey Caull Cautelous Censure Champion Chapman, George Choake-peare Chrisome Cinque pace Citie of new Ninivie Clapdish Closse contryvances Coate Cockerell Coll Comparisons are odorous Consort Convertite Cooling carde Coranta Cornutus Covent Crak't Crase Cricket Cupboard of plate ( = movable side-board) Cut-beaten-sattyn (Cf.
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[161] See Gilford's note on _The Devil is an Ass_, ii.
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of _The Honest Whore_, iv.