Vulgar words in Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth (Page 1)

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ass x 8
bastard x 1
blockhead x 1
hussy x 1
knock up x 1
            
make love x 1
            

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And whom did we lose but our trumpeter, who stood braying like an ass in the middle of the square, instead of taking care of his neck like a Christian?

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It seemed so homelike, he said, after three years' knocking up and down in no-man's land.

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I've thought it all over in the garden; and I was an ass and a braggart for talking to you as I did last night.

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and that will be enough to keep our hands full, without fretting about this woman and that.--What an ass I have been for years!

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And he, I suppose, thinking it better that Ireland should belong to him than to the Pope's bastard, fits him out, and sends him off on such another errand as Stukely's,--though I will say, for the honor of Devon, if Stukely lived like a fool, he died like an honest man."

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"Well, thou art a brave ass, and valiant, though an ass manifest.

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thou naughty knave; return thanks that thy father was an ass?

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But the Don would not be pacified; and walked out, calling himself an ass and a blinkard for having demeaned himself to such a company, forgetting that he had brought it on himself.

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They reviled the miller and his wife roundly for hard-hearted old heathens; and had no doubt that they had driven the poor maid to throw herself over cliff, or drown herself in the sea; while all the women of Stow, on the other hand, were of unanimous opinion that the hussy had "gone off" with some bad fellow; and that pride was sure to have a fall, and so forth.

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He'd go through fire and water for her, you trust him, Will Cary; and call me an ass if he won't."

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It is certainly more complimentary to them to think that they had been somewhat nobler and more prudent in centuries gone by, than that they were such blockheads as to have dragged on, the son after the father, for all the thousands of years which have elapsed since man was made, without having had wit enough to discover any better food than ants and clay.

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Perhaps she was jealous of his intimacy with Amyas; or perhaps, with the subtle instinct of a woman, she knew that he was the only other man on board who might dare to make love to her (though Will, to do him justice, was as guiltless of any such intention as Amyas himself).

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