Vulgar words in The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 (Page 1)
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_Almanz._ Damn your delay!--you torturers, proceed!
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Asper, in which character he personates himself, (and he neither was nor thought himself a fool) exclaiming against the ignorant judges of the age, speaks thus: How monstrous and detested is't, to see A fellow, that has neither art nor brain, Sit like an _Aristarchus_, or _stark-ass_, Taking men's lines, with a _tobacco face_, In _snuff_, &c. And presently after: "I marvel whose wit 'twas to put a prologue in yond Sackbut's mouth.
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When he would make his court to me, let me die but he is just Æsop's ass, that would imitate the courtly French in his addresses; but, instead of those, comes pawing upon me, and doing all things so _mal a droitly_.
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what a blockhead was I, not to find it out!
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_Dor._ You thought too, I'll lay my life on't, that you might as well make love to me, as my husband does to your mistress.
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You men are like cocks; you never make love, but you clap your wings, and crow when you have done.
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_Pala._ Damn this kindness!
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_Pala._ Old Chios, or the rogue's damn'd that drew it.
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it has a very damn'd sound, Doralice.
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Amongst others which he thus appropriated, were the most extravagant and buffoon scenes in Moliere's "_Bourgeois Gentilhomme_;" in which Monsieur Jourdain is, with much absurd ceremony, created a Turkish Paladin; and where Moliere took the opportunity to introduce an _entrée de ballet_, danced and sung by the Mufti, dervises, and others, in eastern habits.
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To damn, at once, the poet and his play[3]: But why was your rage just at that time shown, When what the author writ was all his own?
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Whether the fault was in the play itself, or in the lameness of the action, or in the number of its enemies, who came resolved to damn it for the title, I will not now dispute.
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Prologues, like bells to churches, toll you in With chiming verse, till the dull plays begin; With this sad difference though, of pit and pew, You damn the poet, but the priest damns you: But priests can treat you at your own expence, And gravely call you fools without offence.
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Th' unnatural strained buffoon is only taking; No fop can please you now of God's own making.
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_Lau._ Alas, we cannot; the damn'd musician stands just in the door where we should pass.
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You bristle up to me, and wheel about me, like a turkey-cock that is making love: Faith, how do you like my person, ha?
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_Fred._ Sir, the assembly will observe, that-- _Duke._ Damn the assembly; 'tis a dull insignificant crowd, now she is not here: Break it up, I'll stay no longer.