Vulgar words in Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation - With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens (Page 1)
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For since there walk in that night not only the lion's whelps but all the beasts of the wood beside, the beast that we hear roar in the dark night of tribulation, and fear for a lion, we sometimes find well afterward in the way that it was no lion at all, but a silly rude roaring ass.
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Howbeit, as the prophet saith, he that faithfully dwelleth in the hope of God's help, the shield of his truth shall so fence him round about that, be it an ass or a colt or a lion's whelp, or a rock of stone or a mist, the night's fear thereof shall be nothing to dread.
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The poor ass came to shrift in Shrovetide, a day or two before Ash Wednesday.
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To tell you all the poor ass's confession, it would be a long work.
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The poor ass after his shrift, when he waxed an-hungered, saw a sow lie with her pigs, well lapped in new straw.
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And thus stayed he still fasting till, when he told the cause, his ghostly father came and informed him better, and then he cast off that scruple and fell mannerly to his meal, and was a right honest ass many a fair day after.
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But yet, as childish as the parable is, in this it serveth for our purpose: that the night's fear of a somewhat scrupulous conscience, though it be painful and troublous to him who hath it, as this poor ass had here, is yet less harm than a conscience that is over-large.
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For though I could be content to be outrun by a horse, yet would I no more abide it to be outrun by an ass.