Vulgar words in King Henry IV, Part 1 (Page 1)

This book at a glance

bastard x 2
brain x 1
damn x 8
            

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 142   ~   ~   ~

I must give over this life, and I will give it over; by the Lord, an I do not, I am a villain: I'll be damn'd for never a king's son in Christendom.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 165   ~   ~   ~

Then art thou damn'd for keeping thy word with the Devil.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 167   ~   ~   ~

Else he had been damn'd for cozening the Devil.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 259   ~   ~   ~

Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and exception, That we at our own charge shall ransom straight His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer; Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd The lives of those that he did lead to fight Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower, Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March Hath lately married.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 651   ~   ~   ~

an I were now by this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 759   ~   ~   ~

Score a pint of bastard in the Half-moon,--or so.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 825   ~   ~   ~

Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink; for, look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 866   ~   ~   ~

I pr'ythee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and that damn'd brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his wife.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 905   ~   ~   ~

I'll see thee damn'd ere I call thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound, I could run as fast as thou canst.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,210   ~   ~   ~

if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damn'd: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,374   ~   ~   ~

I'll have the current in this place damn'd up; And here the smug and sliver Trent shall run In a new channel, fair and evenly: It shall not wind with such a deep indent, To rob me of so rich a bottom here.

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