Vulgar words in The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 (Page 1)
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Whether the Mr. Grey here written of made love to one or both of the ladies--Jane Seymour and Anne Percy--it is difficult now to say.
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And let me ask you whether it be possible that Mr. Grey makes love, they say he does, to my Lady Jane Seymour?
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But what an ass am I to think you can be idle enough at London to read romance!
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Your fellow-servant kisses your hands, and says, "If you mean to make love to her old woman this is the best time you can take, for she is dying; this cold weather kills her, I think."
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Here I have nobody but my brother to torment me, whom I can take the liberty to dispute with, and whom I have prevailed with hitherto to bring none of his pretenders to this place, because of the noise all such people make in a country, and the tittle-tattle it breeds among neighbours that have nothing to do but to inquire who marries and who makes love.
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Would you would ask some one who knew him, whether he be not much more of an ass since his marriage than he was before.
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_L'Amant Absente_ has (in my opinion) a mistress so much beyond any of the rest, that to be in danger of losing her is more than to have lost the others; _L'Amant non Aimé_ was an ass, under favour (notwithstanding the _Princesse Cleobuline's_ letter); his mistress had caprices that would have suited better with our _Amant Jaloux_ than with anybody else; and the _Prince Artibie_ was much to blame that he outlived his _belle Leontine_.
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When it was designed that I should have had Sir Jus., my brother used to tell he was confident that, with all his wisdom, any woman that had wit and discretion might make an ass of him, and govern him as she pleased.
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And now he looks more like an ass than ever he did.