Vulgar words in Measure for Measure (Page 1)

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ass x 2
bastard x 2
whore x 3
            

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If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And Death unloads thee.

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Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.

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Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be so; ever your fresh whore and your powder'd bawd- an unshunn'd consequence; it must be so.

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Ere he would have hang'd a man for the getting a hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a thousand.

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Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery; but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be hang'd, I cannot imagine.

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To Lucio] You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward, One all of luxury, an ass, a madman!

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I beseech your Highness, do not marry me to a whore.

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