Vulgar words in Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters (Page 1)
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He will inveigle you to naughtiness to get your good name into his clutches; he will be your pandar to have you on the hip for a whore-master, and make you drunk to shew you reeling.
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He is drawn into naughtiness with company, but suffers alone, and the bastard commonly laid to his charge.
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She has heard of the rag of Rome, and thinks it a very sluttish religion, and rails at the whore of Babylon for a very naughty woman.
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He has taken pains to be an ass, though not to be a scholar, and is at length discovered and laughed at.
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He is a great diver in the streams or issues of gentry, and not a by-channel or bastard escapes him; yea he does with them like some shameless queen, fathers more children on them than ever they begot.
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He tastes stiles as some discreeter palates do wine; and tells you which is genuine, which sophisticate and bastard.
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A bawdy jest shall shame him more than a bastard another man, and he that got it shall censure him among the rest.
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"There are foure persons not to be believed: a horse-courser when he sweares, a whore when shee weepes, a lawyer when he pleads false, and a traveller when he tels wonders.
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Who, if my pen may as my thoughts be free, Were scurril wits and buffoons both to thee; Yet these our learned of severest brow Will deign to look on, and to note them too, That will defy our own, 'tis English stuff, And th' author is not rotten long enough, Alas!
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pray Let them put all their _Thrasoes_ in one play, He shall out-bid them; their conceit was poor, All in a circle of a bawd or whore; A coz'ning dance; take the fool away And not a good jest extant in a play.
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Doe but intreat her with faire words, or flatter her, she then confesseth all her imperfections, and layes the guilt vpon the whore her mayd.
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"He is frigging up and doune, and composeth not his body to a settled posture.