Vulgar words in Cynthia's Revels (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 4
bastard x 2
blockhead x 2
buffoon x 4
            
damn x 1
dildo x 1
hussy x 2
make love x 1
            
pimp x 1
turd x 3
whore x 3
            

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Another comedy of less merit is "The Devil is an Ass," acted in 1616.

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This volume published, in a carefully revised text, all the plays thus far mentioned, excepting "The Case is Altered," which Jonson did not acknowledge, "Bartholomew Fair," and "The Devil is an Ass," which was written too late.

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He is a great proficient in all the illiberal sciences, as cheating, drinking, swaggering, whoring, and such like: never kneels but to pledge healths, nor prays but for a pipe of pudding-tobacco.

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'Slud, I'll give out all he does is dictated from other men, and swear it too, if thou'lt have me, and that I know the time and place where he stole it, though my soul be guilty of no such thing; and that I think, out of my heart, he hates such barren shifts: yet to do thee a pleasure and him a disgrace, I'll damn myself, or do any thing.

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A third comes, giving nods To his repenting creditors, protests To weeping suitors, takes the coming gold Of insolent and base ambition, That hourly rubs his dry and itchy palms; Which griped, like burning coals, he hurls away Into the laps of bawds, and buffoons' mouths.

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Pray Venus my whore have not discover'd herself to the rascally boys, and that be the cause of their stay.

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nothing but whore and bitch, and all the villainous swaggering names you can think on!

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'Slight, what an ass was I to embrace him!

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From making love by attorney, courting of puppets, and paying for new acquaintance.

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ANTIC, ANTIQUE, clown, buffoon.

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ANTIC, like a buffoon.

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APPLE-JOHN, APPLE-SQUIRE, pimp, pander.

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BY-CHOP, by-blow, bastard.

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COTQUEAN, hussy.

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DILDO, refrain of popular songs; vague term of low meaning.

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GOOSE-TURD, colour of.

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(See Turd).

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JOLTHEAD, blockhead.

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NOWT-HEAD, blockhead.

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QUEAN, hussy, jade.

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SLIP, counterfeit coin, bastard.

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SOUSED ("Devil is an Ass"), fol.

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TURD, excrement.

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VICE, the buffoon of old moralities; some kind of machinery for moving a puppet (Gifford).

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