Vulgar words in Every Man in His Humor (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 4
bastard x 4
blockhead x 2
buffoon x 4
dildo x 1
            
hussy x 2
pimp x 1
piss x 1
turd x 3
whore x 2
            

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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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So would not I in any bastard's, brother, As it is like he is, although I knew Myself his father.

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I cannot lose the thought yet of this letter, Sent to my son; nor leave t' admire the change Of manners, and the breeding of our youth Within the kingdom, since myself was one-- When I was young, he lived not in the stews Durst have conceived a scorn, and utter'd it, On a gray head; age was authority Against a buffoon, and a man had then A certain reverence paid unto his years, That had none due unto his life: so much The sanctity of some prevail'd for others.

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Nay, would ourselves were not the first, even parents, That did destroy the hopes in our own children; Or they not learn'd our vices in their cradles, And suck'd in our ill customs with their milk; Ere all their teeth be born, or they can speak, We make their palates cunning; the first words We form their tongues with, are licentious jests: Can it call whore?

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cry bastard?

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a thread-bare rascal, a beggar, a slave that never drunk out of better than piss-pot metal in his life!

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You are an ass, do you see; touch any man here, and by this hand I'll run my rapier to the hilts in you.

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Tib, you are a whore.

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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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