Vulgar words in The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes (Page 1)
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do you persist, hussy, in talking ambiguously to me?
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Hussy, I've been intrusting the sheep to the wolf.
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what is it you say, you hussy?
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He is a fool, a dolt, a blockhead; night and day he snores away; and you need not fear that the lady will fall in love with him; you may easily have him discarded whenever you please.
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Those familiar with the works of Hogarth will readily call to mind the picture of Bedlam in the Rake's Progress, whore the young woman is looking askance through her fan at the madman in his cell.]
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Most probably it was from them that the "motley" descended to the fools and buffoons of the Middle Ages.]
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Any one of those epithets which are applied to a fool is suited to myself, such as dolt, post, ass,[91] lump of lead; to him not one can {apply}; his stupidity surpasses them all.
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[Footnote 91: _Dolt, post, ass_)--Ver.
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"Whoever there are in any place whatsoever, whoever have been, and whoever shall be in time to come, fools, blockheads, idiots, dolts, sots, oafs, lubbers, I singly by far exceed them all in folly and absurd ways."]
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What, ass!