Vulgar words in The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay (Page 1)

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ass x 3 bastard x 6 blockhead x 2 damn x 2 god damn x 1

pimp x 1 whore x 1

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Within your country's law, blockhead!

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It is said that Longespée (a son of his by Madame Rosamund) and Geoffrey (another bastard), with Bohun and De Lacy and some more, tried to hinder him in this design, wherein (said they) he set out to be a second Thyestes; but they might as well have bandied words with destiny.

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There were old Gilles and young Gilles with their men; eight of the King's own choosing, namely, Drago de Merlou, Armand Taillefer, the Count of Ponthieu, Fulk Perceforest, Fulk D'Oilly, Gilbert FitzReinfrid, Ponce the bastard of Caen, and a butcher called Rolf, to whom the King, mocking all chivalry, gave the gilt spurs before he started.

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They held a hasty conference, Geoffrey his bastard, the Marshal, the Bishop: these and the French ambassadors.

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He left a wife in prison, two sons in arms against him, and many bastards.'

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But Count John took no Cross, nor did Geoffrey the bastard of Anjou.

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'God damn him,' said Gilles de Gurdun for his part.

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He had found the Archduke a burdensome ass, but no more.

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Human garbage filled the close ways of Acre, men and women marred by themselves or a hideous begetting, hairless persons and snug little chamberers, botch-faces, scald-heads, minions of many sorts, silent-footed Arabians as shameless as dogs, Greeks, pimps and panders, abominable women.

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'Eh, damn the flies,' said Gilles.

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They left Burgundy, Beauvais, and Henry of Champagne--one friend, one enemy, and one blockhead.

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'I do that, by our Lord,' said Rolf, 'since by these deeds of thine my wife and children will starve, or she become a whore.'

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I hate you above all people in the world, mother of a bastard.

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The Marquess's ass grew frisky, pricked up his ears and brayed.

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'Damn it, he flouts me, does he?' said Austria at last; and left him alone.

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'Blessed ass, I have heard you snoring these two hours, snoring and rootling over your jack-knife.

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