Vulgar words in The Fair Maid of Perth - Or, St. Valentine's Day (Page 1)
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and why not grates and fire prongs, and Culross girdles, and an ass to carry the merchandise through the country, and thou for another ass to lead it by the halter?
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"Now, go thy ways, for a right valiant and courageous blockhead," said her father-and then speaking to his daughter, he added, "Heaven is best thanked, my daughter, by gratitude shown to our fellow creatures.
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I own, however, I am but an ass in the trick of bringing about such discourse as is to the purpose for the occasion."
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authority is a load for an ass rather than a spirited horse: it would but clog the motions of such young fellows as you and me."
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See, here is the stick I had from you when we nutted together in the sunny braes of Lednoch, when autumn was young in the year that is gone.
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Yet such was my opinion of Henry, that I would have willingly believed the grossest figment the swaggering ass could have invented.
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"What mister wight have we here," said the Indian chief, "who dares to tie the bells of a morrice on the ankles of a dull ass?
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"Truly, I think thou hast, and if anything could add to my grief and vexation at this moment, it is that, when I am so deep in the mire, an ass like thee should place his clumsy hoof on my head, to sink me entirely.
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"I am the dull ass that bears the message, and kens nought of its purport.