Vulgar words in The White Devil (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 4
bastard x 1
damn x 3
fart x 1
whore x 23
            

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Fortune 's a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take away all at one swoop.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 125   ~   ~   ~

This fellow by his apparel Some men would judge a politician; But call his wit in question, you shall find it Merely an ass in 's foot-cloth.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 149   ~   ~   ~

Will you be an ass, Despite your Aristotle?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 189   ~   ~   ~

what an ignorant ass or flattering knave might be counted, that should write sonnets to her eyes, or call her brow the snow of Ida, or ivory of Corinth; or compare her hair to the blackbird's bill, when 'tis liker the blackbird's feather?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 412   ~   ~   ~

Nature is very pitiful to whores, To give them but few children, yet those children Plurality of fathers; they are sure They shall not want.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 478   ~   ~   ~

Were she a whore of mine, All thy loud cannons, and thy borrow'd Switzers, Thy galleys, nor thy sworn confederates, Durst not supplant her.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 674   ~   ~   ~

Are all these ruins of my former beauty Laid out for a whore's triumph?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 739   ~   ~   ~

He will shoot pills into a man's guts shall make them have more ventages than a cornet or a lamprey; he will poison a kiss; and was once minded for his masterpiece, because Ireland breeds no poison, to have prepared a deadly vapour in a Spaniard's fart, that should have poisoned all Dublin.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 888   ~   ~   ~

So--I will try now whether they wit be close prisoner--methinks none should sit upon thy sister, but old whore-masters---- Flam.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 890   ~   ~   ~

Whore-masters would serve; for none are judges at tilting, but those that have been old tilters.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 894   ~   ~   ~

You are a dull ass; 'tis threatened they have been very public.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,022   ~   ~   ~

I must spare you, till proof cry whore to that.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,037   ~   ~   ~

Who knows not how, when several night by night Her gates were chok'd with coaches, and her rooms Outbrav'd the stars with several kind of lights; When she did counterfeit a prince's court In music, banquets, and most riotous surfeits; This whore forsooth was holy.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,040   ~   ~   ~

whore!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,043   ~   ~   ~

Shall I expound whore to you?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,047   ~   ~   ~

What are whores!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,051   ~   ~   ~

What are whores!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,053   ~   ~   ~

Your rich whores Are only treasuries by extortion fill'd, And emptied by curs'd riot.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,055   ~   ~   ~

What's a whore!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,071   ~   ~   ~

You know what whore is.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,116   ~   ~   ~

For your names Of 'whore' and 'murderess', they proceed from you, As if a man should spit against the wind, The filth returns in 's face.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,236   ~   ~   ~

A house of penitent whores.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,443   ~   ~   ~

Your sister is a damnable whore.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,638   ~   ~   ~

I 'll cut her into atomies, And let th' irregular north wind sweep her up, And blow her int' his nostrils: where 's this whore?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,684   ~   ~   ~

you shall be a brave great lady, A stately and advanced whore.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,736   ~   ~   ~

did not the judge style it A house of penitent whores?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,779   ~   ~   ~

What dar'st thou do, that I not dare to suffer, Excepting to be still thy whore?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,788   ~   ~   ~

What a damn'd imposthume is a woman's will!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,938   ~   ~   ~

Thy fame, fond duke, I first have poison'd; directed thee the way To marry a whore; what can be worse?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,581   ~   ~   ~

Devil Brachiano, thou art damn'd.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,719   ~   ~   ~

I did tell you I would reveal a secret: Isabella, The Duke of Florence' sister, was empoisone'd By a fum'd picture; and Camillo's neck Was broke by damn'd Flamineo, the mischance Laid on a vaulting-horse.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,768   ~   ~   ~

I have known a poor woman's bastard better favoured--this is behind him.

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