Vulgar words in The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II (Page 1)
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Thou impious Pentheus sacrific'd; and thou, The mad Lycurgus punish'd with his axe: By thee the Tyrrhene traitors, in the main Were flung: Adorn'd with painted reins, thou curb'st The lynxes in thy chariot yok'd abreast: Thy steps the Satyrs and Bacchantes tread; And old Silenus; who with wine o'ercharg'd, With a long staff his tottering steps sustains: Or on a crooked ass, unsteady sits: Where'er thou enterest shout the joyous youth, Females and males immingled: loud the drums Struck by their hands resound;--and loudly clash The brazen cymbals: soft the boxen flutes Deep and melodious sound!
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More the furious queen Bore not, but thus exclaim'd;--"Has the whore's son "Power to transform the Tyrrhene crew, and plunge "Them headlong in the deep?
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Here dwell the suffering damn'd.
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would'st thou "The mother's rival be?--thy father's whore?