Vulgar words in The Visions of the Sleeping Bard (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
blockhead x 3
damn x 1
            

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"In great respect, forsooth," quoth he, "by such a blockhead as this.

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Next to these was the prison of Presumption, full of those who, whenever they were urged of old to be rid of their Wantonness, or drunkenness, or avarice, would say: "God is merciful, and better than His word; He will never damn his own creature upon a cause so trivial."

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"If thine ancestors, and thy long pedigree are all thy plea, thou canst go the same gate," quoth a devil, "for we remember scarce one old estate of large extent which some oppressor, some murderer or robber has not founded, leaving it to others as arrant as they, to idle blockheads or to drunken swine.

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convey these blockheads to our paradise to their companions."

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Thus thou art nought without Pride; and little would Pride profit without Wantonness, for bastards are the most numerous and the most fierce of all the subjects of my daughter Pride.

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