The 6,537 occurrences of bastard

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May none I love e'er bear a bastard's name!

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Kant called this latter deduction "A bastard of the imagination, impregnated by experience" with no legitimate application in the world.

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Don Bell's voice blared forth from Radio KZRH in Manila: "Those dirty little bastards have struck Pearl Harbor!

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These were the pitiful survivors from Bataan and Corregidor, the "Battling Bastards of Bataan," and the remnants of the "Death March."

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"Why the dirty bastards!

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His Lillian a bastard!

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Later I heard that he was the bastard son of a telegraph operator who had been in Rosenlund nearly a generation before.

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"Poor bastard," he said.

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We were in fundamental disagreement as to the attitude which we, Americans, should uphold toward the poilus in whose behalf we had volunteered assistance, Mr. A. maintaining "you boys want to keep away from those dirty Frenchmen" and "we're here to show those bastards how they do things in America," to which we answered by seizing every opportunity for fraternization.

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Those bastards doughno what a bath means.

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We Americans are over here to learn them lousy bastards something."

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The Zulu was, to all intents and purposes, gazing at the ceiling.... Bill The Hollander, clad only in his shirt, his long lean muscled legs planted far apart, shook one fist after another at the recumbent Young Pole, thundering (curiously enough in English): "Come on you _Gottverdummer_ son-of-a-bitch of a Polak bastard and fight!

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Get up out o' there you Polak hoor and I'll kill you, you _Gottverdummer_ bastard you!

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I hummed noiselessly: "_si vous passez par ma vil-le n'oubliez pas ma maison; on y mang-e de bonne sou-pe Ton Ton Tay-ne; faite de merde et les onions, Ton Ton Tayne Ton Ton Ton,_" remembering the fine _forgeron_ of Chevancourt who used to sing this, or something very like it, upon a table--entirely for the benefit of _les deux américains_, who would subsequently render "Eats uh lonje wae to Tee-pear-raer-ee," wholly for the gratification of a roomful of what Mr. Anderson liked to call "them bastards," alias "dirty" Frenchmen, alias _les poilus, les poilus divins_.... A little room.

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I knew and sat for months at table with Comtesse Walewska, widow of the bastard son of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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I knew and sat for months at table with Comtesse Walewska, widow of the bastard son of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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But I was not afraid of him now; so, instead of going, I tarried, and criticized his grammar; I reformed his ferocious speeches for him, and put them into good English, calling his attention to the advantage of pure English over the bastard dialect of the Pennsylvanian collieries whence he was extracted.

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In the former, the prothesis is a bastard prothesis, a _quasi_ identity only.

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Whereas in Edmund, for whom passion, the sense of shame as a bastard, and ambition, offer some plausible excuses, Shakspeare has placed many redeeming traits.

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Shall we call this a kind of bastard-allegory?

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I am a bastard-- AXEL.

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The heiress of the family married one of the Harcourts and eventually the possessions came into the hands of Dunois the Bastard of Orleans.

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It was he, who from the walls of his castle at Falaise, if the legend be true, first saw Arlette the tanner's daughter who afterwards became the Mother of William the Bastard.

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I had to put in a bastard line; it looks so flourishing on paper, and gives to the race a semblance of strength, which is always flattering.

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The young Prince Manfred, bastard son of Frederick II., now representing the main power of the German empire, was both; and against him the Pope brought into Italy a religious French knight, of character absolutely like his own, Charles of Anjou.

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"This Saracen scum, led by a bastard German,--traitor to his creed, usurper among his race,--dares it look me, a Christian knight, a prince of the house of France, in the eyes?

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It would be, I own, an audacious and unjustifiable change of the text; but yet, as a mere conjecture, I venture to suggest 'bastards,' for ''bated.'

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Why should the king except the then most illustrious states, which, as being republics, were the more truly inheritors of the Roman grandeur?--With my conjecture, the sense would be;--'let higher, or the more northern part of Italy--(unless 'higher' be a corruption for 'hir'd,'--the metre seeming to demand a monosyllable) (those bastards that inherit the infamy only of their fathers) see, &c.' The following 'woo' and 'wed' are so far confirmative as they indicate Shakspeare's manner of connexion by unmarked influences of association from some preceding metaphor.

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Edmund's speech:- He replied, Thou unpossessing bastard!

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He had been the King's treasurer, his _argentier_; then the Bastard of Orleans made him Mayor of Bordeaux, and now, because he had a taste for guns, he was Grand Master of the Artillery.

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Talbot, his son the Sieur de l'Isle, another bastard son, and a son-in-law, were killed with the greater part of the English nobility, and the whole army was cut to pieces.

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Pent in this barren corner of the isle, Where partial fortune never deign'd to smile; Like nature's bastards, reaping for our share What was rejected by the lawful heir; Unknown amongst the nations of the earth, Or only known to raise contempt and mirth; Long free, because the race of Roman braves Thought it not worth their while to make us slaves; 430 Then into bondage by that nation brought, Whose ruin we for ages vainly sought; Whom still with unslaked hate we view, and still, The power of mischief lost, retain the will; Consider'd as the refuse of mankind, A mass till the last moment left behind, Which frugal nature doubted, as it lay, Whether to stamp with life or throw away; Which, form'd in haste, was planted in this nook, But never enter'd in Creation's book; 440 Branded as traitors who, for love of gold, Would sell their God, as once their king they sold,-- Long have we borne this mighty weight of ill, These vile injurious taunts, and bear them still.

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Frore January, leader of the year, Minced-pies in van, and calves' heads in the rear; Dull February, in whose leaden reign My mother bore a bard without a brain; March, various, fierce, and wild, with wind-crack'd cheeks, By wilder Welshmen led, and crown'd with leeks; April, with fools, and May, with bastards bless'd; June, with White Roses on her rebel breast; 390 July, to whom, the Dog-star in her train, Saint James[154] gives oysters, and Saint Swithin rain; August[155], who, banish'd from her Smithfield stand, To Chelsea flies, with Doggett in her hand; September, when by custom (right divine) Geese are ordain'd to bleed at Michael's shrine, Whilst the priest, not so full of grace as wit, Falls to, unbless'd, nor gives the saint a bit; October, who the cause of Freedom join'd, And gave a second George[156] to bless mankind; 400 November, who, at once to grace our earth, Saint Andrew boasts, and our Augusta's[157] birth; December, last of months, but best, who gave A Christ to man, a Saviour to the slave, Whilst, falsely grateful, man, at the full feast, To do God honour makes himself a beast; All, one and all, shall in this chorus join, And, dumb to others' praise, be loud in mine.

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To whose dear love, though not engaged by birth, My heart is fix'd, my service deeply sworn, How, (by thy father can that thought be borne?-- For monarchs, would they all but think like me, Are only fathers in the best degree) How must thy glories fade, in every land Thy name be laugh'd to scorn, thy mighty hand Be shorten'd, and thy zeal, by foes confess'd, Bless'd in thyself, to make thy neighbours bless'd, 260 Be robb'd of vigour; how must Freedom's pile, The boast of ages, which adorns the isle And makes it great and glorious, fear'd abroad, Happy at home, secure from force and fraud; How must that pile, by ancient Wisdom raised On a firm rock, by friends admired and praised, Envied by foes, and wonder'd at by all, In one short moment into ruins fall, Should any slip of Stuart's tyrant race, Or bastard or legitimate, disgrace 270 Thy royal seat of empire!

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Burton (whilst awkward affectation hung In quaint and labour'd accents on his tongue, Who 'gainst their will makes junior blockheads speak, Ignorant of both, new Latin and new Greek, 720 Not such as was in Greece and Latium known, But of a modern cut, and all his own; Who threads, like beads, loose thoughts on such a string, They're praise and censure; nothing, every thing; Pantomime thoughts, and style so full of trick, They even make a Merry Andrew sick; Thoughts all so dull, so pliant in their growth, They're verse, they're prose, they're neither, and they're both) Shall (though by nature ever both to praise) Thy curious worth set forth in curious phrase; 730 Obscurely stiff, shall press poor Sense to death, Or in long periods run her out of breath; Shall make a babe, for which, with all his fame, Adam could not have found a proper name, Whilst, beating out his features to a smile, He hugs the bastard brat, and calls it Style.

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650 Be all his servants female, young and fair; And if the pride of Nature spur thy heir To deeds of venery, if, hot and wild, He chance to get some score of maids with child, Chide, but forgive him; whoredom is a crime Which, more at this than any other time, Calls for indulgence, and,'mongst such a race, To have a bastard is some sign of grace.

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Recall past times, bring back the days of old, When the great noble bore his honours bold, 230 And in the face of peril, when he dared Things which his legal bastard, if declared, Might well discredit; faithful to his trust, In the extremest points of justice, just, Well knowing all, and loved by all he knew, True to his king, and to his country true; Honest at court, above the baits of gain, Plain in his dress, and in his manners plain; Moderate in wealth, generous, but not profuse, Well worthy riches, for he knew their use; 240 Possessing much, and yet deserving more, Deserving those high honours which he wore With ease to all, and in return gain'd fame Which all men paid, because he did not claim.

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The heiress of the family married one of the Harcourts and eventually the possessions came into the hands of Dunois the Bastard of Orleans.

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It was he, who from the walls of his castle at Falaise, if the legend be true, first saw Arlette the tanner's daughter who afterwards became the Mother of William the Bastard.

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The bastard and the traitor, The wolfcub and the snake, The robber, swindler, hater, Are in your homes--awake!

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Union with bastard slaves adoring The fiend that chains them, to the earth!

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He heard them talking to each other, and recognized with joy the bastard Pushto that he had picked up from one of his father's grooms lately dismissed.

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Seeing this, they called aloud upon their Gods, and the Mehas, who are thrice bastard Muhammadans, strove to recollect the name of the Prophet.

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Was the goad made only to scratch thy own fat back with, bastard?

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You may even call him a coward without finding more than a boot whiz past your ear, but you must not call a man a bastard unless you are prepared to prove it on his front teeth.

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It is this: when he comes to-morrow, sit down round him and let one of you say to the others, 'By Allah, none shall play at this game except he tell us the names of his father and mother; for he who knows not his parents' names is a bastard and shall not play with us.'"

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He was the founder of the religion of the Druses, who look to him to reappear and be their Messiah [FN#68] Bastard or Spanish pellitory.

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Each man bore either a "bastard musket with a snaphance," a "long fowling-piece with musket bore," a "full musket," a "barrell with a match-cock," or perhaps (for they were purchased by the town) a leather gun (though these leather guns may have been cannon).

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A father and son cannot sit in the same Raad, neither can seats be occupied by coloured persons, bastards, or officials.

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[369] The law will not allow you an obolus of the paternal property, for you are a bastard and not a legitimate child.

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I a bastard!

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But what if my father wished to give me his property on his death-bed, even though I be a bastard?

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Listen; thus runs Solon's law: "A bastard shall not inherit, if there are legitimate children; and if there are no legitimate children, the property shall pass to the nearest kin."

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A Achilles, when mute Achradusian, coined word Adimantus, an admiral --his father Admetus, the King Adulterers, depilated Aeagrus, an actor AESCHYLUS, verse from --lost tragedy --periods imitated --ridiculed --supposed disciples --'The Persae,' --parodied --unfair criticism --"Philoctetes" --'Niobe' quoted --'Glaucus Potniensis' quoted Aesculapius, temple of --daughters of Aesimus, unknown Agathon, tragic poet --pederastic habits Aglaurus, two women Agoranomi (the) Agyrrhius, an effeminate general --an upstart Alcaeus, a parody of Alcibiades, lisp in speech --obtains a subsidy Alcmena, seduced by Zeus Alimos, the town of Alliance against Sparta --garrison at Corinth Allusion, obscene --and Smaeus --to Ulysses Alopé, seduced by Posidon Ammon, temple to Zeus Amynon, infamy of Anacreon Andromeda, the play --release of Anti-dicasts and lawsuits Antilochus, Nestor's son Antiphon, a gluttonous parasite Antisthenes, a constipated miser Antithenes, a dissolute doctor Antitheus Aphareus, son of, his piercing vision Aphrodisiac _Apodrasippides_, explained Apollo as god of healing --priestesses of --physician --altar, how misused Apothecary, outfit of Archers, mounted corps of --at Athens Archidemus Ares, a fighting-cock Arginusae, sea-battle of --slaves who fought at Argos, citizens of Ariphrades, his infamous habits Aristocrates, a general Aristophanes, why uncrowned --modifies opinion Aristyllus, debaucheries of Artemis, goddess of chase --the surname of Artemisium, battle of Asia Minor, coast towns Asses' (the) shadow --asses used for the Mysteries Athenian law Attica, invasion of Audience, favour, how gained Augé, the seduced B Bacchus, "Feast of Cups" --surnames of Baptism, the pagan Bar, the, language of Barathrum, a ravine Barriers, let down Bastard, when of strange women Baths, how heated --use in winter Battus, silphium of Bed of Procrustes Beginning, fable of the Bell, to awaken sentinels Birds as love-gifts Boasters, the, of Corinth Bottles painted on coffins Boxing, story of Brasidas, an Athenian general Brigand, the option of Buffoonery at Megara Bullocks' intestines, as comparison Buzzard, double meaning Byzantium C Cake, eaten by priest Callias, identity of Callias, the general, his debaucheries Calligenia, adoration of Callimachus, poverty of Canephori, rank in feasts Canephoros, the part of Cannonus, the decree of Carians, mountaineers Carcinus, tragic poet --pun on name --his three sons Carding, woman's shape at Caskets, how perfumed Cats, lascivious Centaur, the Cephalae, pun on word Cephalus, a demagogue --his father Cephisophon, a "ghost" --seduces a wife Ceramicus, the Chaerephon --compared to the bat Chaplets of flowers Charitimides, an admiral Chians, the, named in prayers Children, when registered Choenix (the) Chorus, the lost --exit singing Choruses, when given Cinesias, the poet --his build --befouls a statue --the dissolute Circumcision, where practised Citizens, the fame of Cleocritus, the strut of Cleonymus, cowardly --gluttony of --wife of Cleophon, a general --an alien Clepsydra (the) Cloak.

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May I implore that you choose between the son of the Marquis of Venour and Black Molly's bastard?"

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May I implore that you choose between the son of the Marquis of Venour and Black Molly's bastard?"

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Is it in good honest German or bastard Latin?"

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But he had not led her out of the chamber before the Sheriff his bastard, whom he had had by the housekeeper, came into the vault with a drum, and kept drumming and crying out, "Come to the roast goose!

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O bastard slips of old Romagna's line!

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O bastard slips of old Romagna's line!

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O bastard slips of old Romagna's line!

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Yet with all their shortcomings I should prefer them to the stunted bastard barb, locally called an Arab and priced between 20_l_.

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012:008 And if you are left without discipline, of which every true son has had a share, that shows that you are bastards, and not true sons.

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you scorn to condescend, [ci] And will not alter what you can't defend, 790 If you will breed this Bastard of your Brains, [75] We'll have no words--I've only lost my pains.

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130 And well I know within that bastard land [10] Hath Wisdom's goddess never held command; A barren soil, where Nature's germs, confined To stern sterility, can stint the mind; Whose thistle well betrays the niggard earth, Emblem of all to whom the Land gives birth; Each genial influence nurtured to resist; A land of meanness, sophistry, and mist.

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"First on the head of him who did this deed My curse shall light,--on him and all his seed: Without one spark of intellectual fire, Be all the sons as senseless as the sire: If one with wit the parent brood disgrace, Believe him bastard of a brighter race: Still with his hireling artists let him prate, And Folly's praise repay for Wisdom's hate; 170 Long of their Patron's gusto let them tell, Whose noblest, _native_ gusto is--to sell: To sell, and make--may shame record the day!-- The State--Receiver of his pilfered prey.

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[Footnote 10: "Irish bastards," according to Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan.

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I suppose next year he will be entitled the "Virgin Mary;" if so, Lord George Gordon himself would have nothing to object to such liberal bastards of our Lady of Babylon.

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"Better say,--'a high-collared guy; swindler, bastard, super-swanker, doubleface, bluffer, totempole, spotter, who looks like a dog as he yelps.'"

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Listen,--a high-collared guy, swindler, bastard, super-swanker ..." While I was repeating this, two shaky fellows came out of the room hammering the floor.

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Bastard?

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"Say, fellows, we've got bastards.

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You've made your own daughter, my wife, into a whore; and branded my unborn child a bastard.

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They rode alternately, through cleared lands, studded with rich farms, waving with luxuriant crops of wheat and rye; and again, through regions, where the axe had never resounded, but where eucalypti, and bastard box, and forest oak with its rough acorn, towered above beauteous wild flowers, whose forms and varieties were associated in the mind of the stranger, with some of the most precious and valued flowers which adorn British conservatories.

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Half an hour from Beroudj is the village of Zebdeni [Arabic], and between them the ruined Khan Benduk (the bastard Khan).

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Philip is then proclaimed King, but Abdelazer announcing he is a bastard, an avowal backed by the Queen, declares himself Protector of Spain, Overpowered by his following, The lords accept him.

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Durst you proclaim--_Philip_ a Bastard, Madam?

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In the mean time send for your Confessor, And with a borrow'd Penitence confess, Their Idol _Philip_ is a Bastard; And zealously pretend you're urg'd by Conscience, A cheap Pretence to cozen Fools withal.

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But, _Alonzo_, Whilst that religious Patience dwells about thee, All Spain must suffer, nay, Ages that shall ensue Shall curse thy Name, and Family; From whom a Race of Bastards shall proceed, To wear that Crown.

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By Heaven, but _Philip_ shall not be my King; _Philip's_ a Bastard, and Traytor to his Country: He braves us with an Army at our Walls, Threatning the Kingdom with a fatal Ruin.

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--I do not boast my Birth, Nor will not urge to you my Kingdom's Ruin; But loss of Blood, and numerous Wounds receiv'd-- And still for _Spain!_-- And can you think, that after all my Toils, I wou'd be still a Slave?--to Bastard _Philip_ too?

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We are betray'd, and round beset with Horrors; If we deny him this--the Power being his, We're all undone, and Slaves unto his Mercy.-- Besides--Oh, give me leave to blush when I declare, That _Philip_ is--as he has rendred him.-- But I in love to you, love to my _Spain_, Chose rather to proclaim my Infamy, Than an ambitious Bastard should be crown'd.

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The rude, exclaiming, ill-affected Multitude (Tempestuous as the Sea) run up and down, Some crying, kill the Bastard--some the Moor; These for King _Philip_,--those for _Abdelazer_.

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If he were so, the Powers above forbid We should not serve, adore, and fight for him; But _Philip_ is a Bastard:--nay, 'twill surprize ye, But that 'tis Truth, the Queen will satisfy you.

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Philip_ a Bastard!

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Philip_ a Bastard!

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Traitor and Bastard, I arrest thee of High-Treason.

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Hah!--Traitor!--and Bastard--and from thee!

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Stay, Peers of _Spain_, If young Prince _Philip_ be King _Philip's_ Son, Then is he Heir to _Philip_, and his Crown; But if a Bastard, then he is a Rebel, And as a Traitor to the Crown shou'd bleed: That dangerous popular Spirit must be laid, Or _Spain_ must languish under civil Swords; And _Portugal_ taking advantage of those Disorders, (Assisted by the Male-contents within, If _Philip_ live) will bring Confusion home.

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--Our Remedy for this is first to prove, And then proclaim him Bastard.

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--How shou'd we prove him Bastard?

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I (in whose Hands Fortune had put the Crown) Had I not lov'd the Good and Peace of _Spain_, Might have dispos'd it to my own Advantage; And shall that Peace, Which I've preferr'd above my proper Glories, Be lost again in him, in him a Bastard?

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That he's a Bastard, is not, Sir, believ'd; And she that cou'd love you, might after that Do any other Sin, and 'twas the least Of all the Number to declare him Bastard.

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Not for thy Ease, but to declare my Malice, Know, Prince, I made thy amorous Mother Proclaim thee Bastard, when I miss'd of killing rhee.

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In Nevil Payne's _The Siege of Constantinople_ (1675) he appears as The Chancellor; 1680 in Otway's Shakespearean cento cum bastard classicism _Caius Marius_ some very plain traits can be recognized in the grim Marius senior; in Southerne's _The Loyal Brother_ (1682) Ismael, a villainous favourite; in _Venice Preserved_ (1682) the lecherous Antonio; in the same year Banks caricatured him as a quite unhistorical Cardinal Wolsey, _Virtue Betray'd; or, Anna Bullen_; in Crowne's mordant _City Politics_ (1683) the Podesta of a most un-Italian Naples; the following year Arius the heresiarch in Lee's _Constantine the Great_; in the operatic _Albion and Albanius_ (1685), Dryden does not spare even physical infirmities and disease with the crudest yet cruellest exhibition, and five years later he attacked his old enemy once more as Benducar in that great tragedy _Don Sebastian_.

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It would be a mistake to suppose that it was only the captains of the _écorcheurs_--the bastards, the seigneurs without a seigneurie, who showed themselves so ferocious.

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But usually the free Companies enrolled themselves under some bastard (Bourg) of a noble house in France or Guyenne.

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It was a bastard warfare on their side; they stood in the same relation to the regular forces that privateers do to a fleet of the Royal Navy.

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The Bastard de Beby, the Bastard d'Albret, Amadeu de Pons, Benezet Daguda, De l'Esparre, Menard de Favas, l'Archipretre, Bertrand de la Salle, Le Non de Mauroux, Jean l'Esclop, Nolibarba, Bertrand de Besserat, Perrot de Savoie, Ramonet del Sort, and a score more, all base French or Gascon names.

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