Vulgar words in Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies (Page 1)
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_Where lately harbour'd many a famous whore, A purging-bill now fix'd upon the door, Tells you it it a_ hot-house, _so it may.
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And still be a whore-house_.
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He first says, that his _wrongs_ and _blows_ prove him an _ass_; but immediately, with a correction of his former sentiment, such as may be hourly observed in conversation, he observes that, if he had been an ass, he should, when he was _kicked_, have _kicked_ again.
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V.i.14 (424,4) [He is too picked] To have the beard _piqued_ or shorn so as to end in a point, was, in our authour's time, a mark of a traveller affecting foreign fashions: so says the Bastard in K. John, --_I catechise _My_ piqued _man of countries_.
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Bottom was perhaps the head of a rival house, and is therefore honoured with an ass's head.
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It is plain by Bottom's answer, that Snout mentioned an _ass's head._ Therefore we should read, Snout.
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An ass's head?
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III.ii.39 (279,5) [Truly, then art damn'd, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side] Of this jest I do not fully comprehend the meaning.
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II.i.12 (35,8) [let higher Italy (Those 'hated, that inherit but the fall Of the last monarchy) [see, that you come Not to woo honour, but to wed it] [Hammer: Those bastards that inherit] Dr. Warburton's observation is learned, but rather too subtle; Sir Tho.
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II.iii.105 (54,4) [There's one grape yet,--I am sure, they father drunk wine.--But if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen.
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Old Lafeu having, upon the supposition that the lady was refused, reproached the young lords as _boys of ice_, throwing his eyes on Bertram who remained, cries out, "_There is one yet into whom his father put good blood,----but I have known thee long enough to know thee for an ass_."
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II.i.143 (288,2) [land-damn him] Sir T. Hammer interprets, _stop his urine_.
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_Land-damn_ is probably one of those words which caprice brought into fashion, and which, after a short time, reason and grammar drove irrecoverably away.
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II.iii.77 (298, 5) [Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou Tak'st up the princess, by that forced baseness] Leontes had ordered Antigonus to _take up the bastard,_ Paulina forbids him to touch the princess under that appellation.
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So the Bastard in _King John_, speaking of the traveller, says, _He and_ his pick-tooth _at my worship's mess_.