Vulgar words in Hamlet (Page 1)

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( C. ) Angels and ministers of grace defend us!- Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, 89 That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee-Hamlet, King, father: Royal Dane: O, answer me!

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Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John a-dreams, 67 unpregnant of my cause, 68 And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn'd defeat was made.

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48 Why, what an ass am I!

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The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and, perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy (As he is very potent with such spirits), Abuses me to damn me: I'll have good grounds More relative than this: 75 The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.

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( R. ) That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard; Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow Of my true mother.

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Cudgel thy brains no more about it, 15 for your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when you are asked this question next, say, a grave-maker, the houses that he makes, last till doomsday.

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This might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent Heaven, might it not?

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