Vulgar words in The Beaux-Stratagem (Page 1)
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Even the lumpish blockhead, Squire Sullen--according to Macaulay a type of the main strength of the Tory party for half a century after the Revolution--contrasts favourably with his prototype Sir John Brute in Vanbrugh's _Provoked Wife_, He is a sodden sot, who always goes to bed drunk, but he is not a demon; he does not beat his wife in public; he observes common decency somewhat.
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Damn your onions!
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Why, then, you 're but even with me; for the minute I came in, I was a-considering in what manner I should make love to you.
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Prithee, instruct me, I would fain make love to you, but I don't know what to say.
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Why, did you never make love to anybody before?
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There's some diversion in a talking blockhead; and since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.
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Right; and therefore you must pimp for your master.
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would you make your mother a whore, and me a cuckold, as the saying is?
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damn your raptures; I tell you, here's a pump going to be put into the vessel, and the ship will get into harbour, my life on't.
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That jade, Gipsy, that was with us just now in the cellar, is the arrantest whore that ever wore a petticoat; and I 'm dying for love of her.
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In the country, I grant ye, where no woman's virtue is lost, till a bastard be found.
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Ay, could I bring her to a bastard, I should have her all to myself; but I dare not put it upon, the lay, for fear of being sent for a soldier.
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Ay, a damned son of a whore of Babylon, that came over hither to say grace to the French officers, and eat up our provisions.
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ay, and perverted, my dear friend: for, I 'm afraid, he has made her a whore and a papist!
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--And I could almost wish--he did not!--The fellow makes love very prettily.--[_Aloud_.]
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Look'ee, madam, don't think that my anger proceeds from any concern I have for your honour, but for my own, and if you can contrive any way of being a whore without making me a cuckold, do it and welcome.
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I suppose, madam, you made him drink plentifully of ass's milk.
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_Re-enter Aimwell, leading Dorinda, and making love in dumb show; Mrs. Sullen and Archer following_.
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You find, madam, how Jupiter comes disguised to make love-- _Mrs. Sul_.
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Or be obliged to some purse-proud coxcomb for a scandalous bottle, where we must not pretend to our share of the discourse, because we can't pay our club o' th' reckoning.--Damn it, I had rather sponge upon Morris, and sup upon a dish of bones scored behind the door!
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Or be obliged to sneak into the side-box, and between both houses steal two acts of a play, and because we han't money to see the other three, we come away discontented, and damn the whole five.
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Ay, now is the time to prevent all this:--strike while the iron is hot.--This priest is the luckiest part of our adventure; he shall marry you, and pimp for me.
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None but what you may cure---- [_Makes love in dumb show_.
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If to our play your judgment can't be kind, Let its expiring author pity find: Survey his mournful case with melting eyes, Nor let the bard be damn'd before he dies.