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 art 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 powdered bawd--an unshunned consequence:; it must be so.

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Ere he would have hanged 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 hanged, I cannot imagine.

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By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe; Methinks I see a quick'ning in his eye.-- Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well": Look that you love your wife; her worth worth yours.-- I find an apt remission in myself; And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.-- You, sirrah [to Lucio], that knew me for a fool, a coward, One all of luxury, an ass, a madman; Wherein have I so deserved of you That you extol me thus?

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I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore!

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