Vulgar words in History of Troilus and Cressida (Page 1)

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ass x 6
bastard x 11
whore x 10
            

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PROHIBITED COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION INCLUDES BY ANY SERVICE THAT CHARGES FOR DOWNLOAD TIME OR FOR MEMBERSHIP.>> 1602 THE HISTORY OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA by William Shakespeare DRAMATIS PERSONAE PRIAM, King of Troy His sons: HECTOR TROILUS PARIS DEIPHOBUS HELENUS MARGARELON, a bastard son of Priam Trojan commanders: AENEAS ANTENOR CALCHAS, a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks PANDARUS, uncle to Cressida AGAMEMNON, the Greek general MENELAUS, his brother Greek commanders: ACHILLES AJAX ULYSSES NESTOR DIOMEDES PATROCLUS THERSITES, a deformed and scurrilous Greek ALEXANDER, servant to Cressida SERVANT to Troilus SERVANT to Paris SERVANT to Diomedes HELEN, wife to Menelaus ANDROMACHE, wife to Hector CASSANDRA, daughter to Priam, a prophetess CRESSIDA, daughter to Calchas Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants SCENE: Troy and the Greek camp before it PROLOGUE TROILUS AND CRESSIDA PROLOGUE In Troy, there lies the scene.

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You scurvy valiant ass!

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All the argument is a whore and a cuckold-a good quarrel to draw emulous factions and bleed to death upon.

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Would the fountain of your mind were clear again, that I might water an ass at it.

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Both merits pois'd, each weighs nor less nor more; But he as he, the heavier for a whore.

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Why, his masculine whore.

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To an ass, were nothing: he is both ass and ox.

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To an ox, were nothing: he is both ox and ass.

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A proof of strength she could not publish more, Unless she said 'My mind is now turn'd whore.'

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Patroclus will give me anything for the intelligence of this whore; the parrot will not do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab.

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I would fain see them meet, that that same young Troyan ass that loves the whore there might send that Greekish whoremasterly villain with the sleeve back to the dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeve-less errand.

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Hold thy whore, Grecian; now for thy whore, Troyan-now the sleeve, now the sleeve!

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The fierce Polydamus Hath beat down enon; bastard Margarelon Hath Doreus prisoner, And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam, Upon the pashed corses of the kings Epistrophus and Cedius.

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A bastard son of Priam's.

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I am a bastard too; I love bastards.

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I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in everything illegitimate.

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One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?

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Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment.

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Farewell, bastard.

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