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

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ass x 9
bastard x 1
god damn x 1
            

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If thou art chang’d to aught, ’tis to an ass.

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419 200 ’Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be But I should know her as well as she knows me.

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E. I think thou art an ass.

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I should kick, being kick’d; and, being at that pass, You would keep from my heels, and beware of an ass.

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If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place, Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name, or thy name for an ass .

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’Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed, And let her read it in thy looks at board: Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed; 20 Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

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S. I am an ass, I am a woman’s man, and besides myself.

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S. Nay, she is worse, she is the devil’s dam; and here she comes in the habit of a light wench: and thereof comes that the wenches say, ‘God damn me;’ that’s as much to say, ‘God make me a light wench.’ It is written, 50 they appear to men like angels of light: light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn; ergo, light wenches will burn.

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E. Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an ass.

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E. I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long ears .

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47. an ass ] a face Collier MS. 48.

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