Vulgar words in Measure for Measure - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] (Page 1)

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ass x 2
bastard x 2
whore x 3
            

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If thou art rich, thou’rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, 335 Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

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Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.

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Why, ’tis good; it is the right of it; it must be 55 so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd: an unshunned consequence; it must be so.

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Ere he 110 would have hanged a man for the getting a hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.

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Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery: but 35 what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be hanged, I cannot imagine.

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[ To Lucio ] You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward, One all of luxury, an ass, a madman; V. 1 500 Wherein have I so deserved of you, That you extol me thus?

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I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.

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