Vulgar words in The Comedies of Terence (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
blockhead x 3
brain x 2
hussy x 4
pimp x 8
            
slut x 1
            

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A coaxing hussy!

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Off, you saucy slut!]

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I should have been delighted to behold How like an ass you look'd, and held the fan.

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Plac'd in the cabinet.--D'ye loiter, hussy?

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Plac'd in the cabinet.--D'ye loiter, hussy?

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Upon the cabinet.--D'ye loiter, hussy?

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And now what is't the blockhead waits for, Syrus?

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_MENEDEMUS alone._ That I'm not overwise, no conjurer, I know full well: but my assistant here, And counselor, and grand controller Chremes, Outgoes me far: dolt, blockhead, ninny, ass; Or these, or any other common terms By which men speak of fools, befit me well: But him they suit not: his stupidity Is so transcendent, it exceeds them all.

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No, no, Clitipho, Though from my brain you had been born, as Pallas Sprang, it is said, from Jupiter, I would not Bear the disgrace of your enormities.

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Come hither, Parmeno!--you're too far off.---- Stand close to that pimp's side--There--there--just there!

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If you have brawl'd enough, Please to indulge me with one word, you pimp.

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a pimp, And talks of justice!

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Well, I am a pimp; The common bane of youth, a perjurer, A public nuisance, I confess it: yet I never did you wrong.

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Think on this, Pimp, till I come back again.

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Why prithee, blockhead, could you be afraid, Had you abated somewhat of your right, And humor'd the young gentleman, he would not Have paid you back again with interest?

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must I brain you, rascal?

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she belong'd To a most avaricious, sordid pimp; Nor had we aught to give;--th' old gentleman Had taken care of that.

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Had you, like me, a scoundrel pimp to deal with, Then you'd perceive--But sure 'tis in our nature Never to be contented.

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This pimp, I fear, will work himself no good.

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