Vulgar words in The Saint's Tragedy (Page 1)
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Proud hussy!
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'Tis enough to have driven him forth-- And that's enough to damn me: I'll not chide you-- I can see nothing but my loss; I'll to him-- I'll go in sackcloth, bathe his feet with tears-- And know nor sleep nor food till I am forgiven-- And you must with me, ladies.
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[A Woodcutter enters with a laden ass.]
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Run up the bank--shove the jackass into the ditch.
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A word before you go--Take warning by me--avoid that same serpent, wisdom--Pray to the Saints to make you a blockhead--Never send your boys to school--For Heaven knows, a poor man that will live honest, and die in his bed, ought to have no more scholarship than a parson, and no more brains than your jackass.
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Has sunk vast sums in fever-hospitals, For rogues whom famine sickened--almshouses For sluts whose husbands died--schools for their brats.
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One trick's cured; That lust of giving; Isentrude and Guta, The hussies, came here begging but yestreen, Vowed they were starving.
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Better that I, this paltry sinful unit, Fall fighting, crushed into the nether pit, If my dead corpse may bridge the path to Heaven, And damn itself, to save the souls of others.