Vulgar words in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (Page 1)

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ass x 2
bastard x 2
piss x 1
pissed x 1
            

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And they say that fornication is no sin deadly, but a thing that is kindly, and that men and women should not wed but once, and whoso weddeth oftener than once, their children be bastards and gotten in sin.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 463   ~   ~   ~

And in Sicily there is a manner of serpent, by the which men assay and prove, whether their children be bastards or no, or of lawful marriage: for if they be born in right marriage, the serpents go about them, and do them no harm, and if they be born in avoutry, the serpents bite them and envenom them.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 669   ~   ~   ~

And there beside, is the Golden Gate, that may not be opened, by the which gate our Lord entered on Palm-Sunday upon an ass: and the gate opened against him when he would go unto the temple; and yet appear the steps of the ass's feet in three places of the degrees that be of full hard stone.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 839   ~   ~   ~

And from thence toward the east, a three bow shot, is Bethphage, to the which our Lord sent Saint Peter and Saint James for to seek the ass upon Palm- Sunday, and rode upon that ass to Jerusalem.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,451   ~   ~   ~

And the most sin that any man may do is to piss in their houses that they dwell in, and whoso that may be found with that sin sikerly they slay him.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,453   ~   ~   ~

And it behoveth also, that the place that men have pissed in be hallowed again, and else dare no man enter therein.

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