Vulgar words in Coriolanus (Page 1)

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When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be entombed in an ass's pack-saddle.

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Because that now it lies you on to speak To the people; not by your own instruction, Nor by the matter which your heart prompts you, But with such words that are but rooted in Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables Of no allowance, to your bosom's truth.

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Bastards and all.-- Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!

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I' the city of kites and crows!--What an ass it is!--Then thou dwell'st with daws too?

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Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.

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