Vulgar words in Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes (Page 1)

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bastard x 6
buffoon x 5
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They are pleased to welcome me at their board, because the Roman doctors call me learned, and because Nature gave me a wild wit, which to them is pleasanter than the stale jests of a hired buffoon.

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"May Lucifer double damn those German cut-throats!" muttered, between his grinded teeth, one of the citizens.

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ha!--he would call me, I think, sometimes, in gay compliment, his jester--his buffoon!

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William the Bastard could scarce have found the hardy Englishers so easy a conquest as Walter the Well-born may find these eunuch Romans.

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"Oh, Rienzi, and such buffoons, amuse them.

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Already his bastard brother had entered Italy--already some of the Neapolitan states had declared in his favour--already promises had been held out by the northern monarch to the scattered Companies--and already those fierce mercenaries gathered menacingly round the frontiers of that Eden of Italy, attracted, as vultures to the carcass, by the preparation of war and the hope of plunder.

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"Bastards have their own name to win," said the boy, colouring deeply.

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I wish she would place me with the Tribune's lady, and then we'll see who among the lads will call Angelo Villani bastard."

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Though too just to avenge himself by retaliating on the patricians their own violence, though, in his troubled and stormy tribuneship, not one unmerited or illegal execution of baron or citizen could be alleged against him, even by his enemies; yet sharing, less excusably, the weakness of Nina, he could not deny his proud heart the pleasure of humiliating those who had ridiculed him as a buffoon, despised him as a plebeian, and who, even now slaves to his face, were cynics behind his back.

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"Why, no; the Tribune was pleased with his spirit, and made him sup with him; and Annibaldi says he never spent a merrier evening, and no longer wonders that his kinsman, Riccardo, loves the buffoon so."

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("Ardea terre, arse la Castelluzza e case, e uomini.

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"I am an orphan and a bastard," said Angelo, bluntly!

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Rememberest thou, how the Norman sword won Sicily, and how the bastard William converted on the field of Hastings his baton into a sceptre.

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