Vulgar words in The Noble Spanish Soldier (Page 1)

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bastard x 8
whore x 9
            

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I must have it; A bastard have I by her, and that cock Will have, I fear, sharp spurs, if he crow after Him that trod for him.

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The best mirth for bawds is to have fresh handsome whores, and for whores to have rich gulls come aboard their pinnaces <4>, for then they are sure to build galleasses <5>.

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CARDINAL Before the morrow sun hath rode Half his day's journey, will send home his Queen As one that stains his bed, and can produce Nothing but bastard issue to his crown.

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KING Call and try, here's a whore's curse To fall in that belief, which her sins nurse.

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Let him out of his mess of kingdoms cut out but one, and lay Sicily, Aragon or Naples or any else upon your trencher <25>, and you will praise bastard <26> for the sweetest wine in the world, and call for another quart of it.

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MALATESTE That the most Catholic king in marrying you, Keeps you but as his whore.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 595   ~   ~   ~

Her bastard son they said The King being dead, should claim and wear the crown, And whatsoever children you shall bear, To be but bastards in the highest degree, As being begotten in adultery.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 608   ~   ~   ~

Besides a guesse <29> Is hereby made of any faction That shall combine against you, which the King seeing, If then he will not rouse him like a dragon To guard his golden fleece, and rid his harlot And her base bastard hence, either by death, Or in some traps of state ensnare them both, Let his own ruins crush him.

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BALTHAZAR But, Sir, if evil days jostle our prognostication to the wall, then say there's a fire in a whore-masters cod-piece.

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Shall then that strumpet And bastard breathe quick vengeance in my face, Making my Kingdom reel, my subjects stagger In their obedience, and yet live?

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BALTHAZAR So men hate whores after lust's heat is spent.

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And I like moping Juno sit, whilst Jove Varies his lust into five hundred shapes To steal to his whore's bed!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,290   ~   ~   ~

QUEEN Poison his whore today, for thou shalt wait On the King's cup, and when heated with wine He calls to drink the bride's health, marry her Alive to a gaping grave.

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Bastard Ð sweet Spanish Wine.

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Trul Ð whore.

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