Vulgar words in Chivalry (Page 1)
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One might as sensibly deny a future to Ecclesiastes, _The Golden Ass, Gulliver's Travels_, and the works of Rabelais as to predict oblivion for such a thesaurus of ironic wit and fine fantasy, mellow wisdom and strange beauty as _Jurgen_.
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But these sins which damn one's soul are in actual performance very tedious affairs; and I begin to grow aweary of the game.
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"Dompnedex!" the Earl was wont to say; "in sincerity I am fond of Gregory Darrell, and if he chooses to make love to my daughter that is none of my affair.
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This bastard was charitable and pious because he knew his soul, conceived in double sin, to be doubly evil, and therefore doubly in need of redemption through good works.
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"Between a heifer and an ass Enixa est puerpera; In ragged woollen clad He was Qui régnât super aethera, And patiently may we then pass That sing, and heartily sing we, 'Gloria Tibi, Domine!'"
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In a while Richard said: "Well, I at least am not fool enough to think of making you a king's whore.