Vulgar words in The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty (Page 1)

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ass x 1
blockhead x 2
country bumpkin x 1
hussy x 3
slut x 8
            

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Comes Mr Collins with his new Wife, a pretty well-shaped Woman with black hayre and Eyes, and she, much cried up for her skill on the Theorbo, do after play a Lesson upon it, but very ill, and pretty to see Sam'l that was hoping great things (loving musique) in pain and grief to hear her mean false playing and yet making fine wordes of it to please her, and they gone, do call her slut and baggage and I know not what all.

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This Sam'l disputing very hotly after we had supt upon a Jowl of Salmon, I to speake my mind, asking if he would have his Wife casting oranges to the actors and blowing Kisses all about the house, and he not knowing what to answer, I do say, "Then prayse it not in others, for, if you will have me a bold Slut, no doubt but I will do my endeavours to please you," and so whiskte off, he sitting astonied.

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16th.--This day comes my new cook-Mayd, Jane Gentleman, and heaven send she prove worthy of her name, for I am drove almost madd with mayds that are not mayds but Sluts and know not diligence nor cleanliness, to their own undoing and mine.

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I'll give the hussy her lesson."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 335   ~   ~   ~

That evening he came into Dingley's room, where I sat with her to repair the household linen, and rattled on, full of wit and good humour; and when Dingley went out to fetch a cordial for him, he says:-- "Well, Mistress Stella, did we give the lying slut her lesson today--did we?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 705   ~   ~   ~

Such sluts, such tongue-snakes shall not cross my path.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 954   ~   ~   ~

* * * * * _(A month later)_ My Dear Madam,-- Herewith the end of the romance I have inflicted on your obliging attention, and I am now to tell you your comments were fully justified and I have writ myself down an ass and invoked as fine a lampoon as Pope could write in gall and vinegar.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 955   ~   ~   ~

"Sappho" will be as nothing to it, and indeed that I, that know the world or should know it, should behave so like a country bumpkin new come to town is gall and wormwood to myself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 973   ~   ~   ~

Good Heaven, that I had heeded, and not harboured the slut!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 976   ~   ~   ~

He picked the hussy up in the Fleet and wed her, and then, being in debt, the thought struck the promising pair that my jewels might meet their needs.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 986   ~   ~   ~

Lord, when I think of my sentiment wasted on the arrant hussy!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 988   ~   ~   ~

Well, 'tis the miserable truth that this young fool (who sure must get it from his mother) did wed this slut at the Fleet two years since, and hath damned himself for life.

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Why, Maria Walpole, you little blockhead!

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On this she ventures into the Park, and, pretending fright, desires the assistance of the officer, who orders twelve sergeants to march abreast before her and a sergeant and twelve men behind her; and in this pomp did the silly little fool walk all the evening, with more mob about her than ever, her blockhead husband on one side and my Lord Pembroke on the other!

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I broke the matter with my dear Sir Charles; but he pooh-poohed my anxieties in his sailorly fashion, saying:-- "There's many a bad egg from a good nest, my Lady, and Mrs Darcy may be a valuable woman, for all her sister looks such a slut.

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