Vulgar words in Woodstock; or, the Cavalier (Page 1)
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"Not more than may be drawn by the point of a needle," said the preacher, scornfully.--"Ye tailors of Woodstock!--for what is a glover but a tailor working on kidskin?--I forsake you, in scorn of your faint hearts and feeble hands, and will seek me elsewhere a flock which will not fly from their shepherd at the braying of the first wild ass which cometh from out the great desert."
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Here we have one head Upon two bodies,--your two-headed bullock Is but an ass to such a prodigy.
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Desborough is a blockhead, to be sure; and Harrison is fanatic enough to believe anything.
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The bloody bear, an independent beast, Unlick'd to forms, in groans his hate express'd-- Next him the buffoon ape, as atheists use, Mimick'd all sects, and had his own to choose.
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"Cowardly blockheads!" he said at last, seizing hold of the handle of the door, but without turning it effectually round-- "dare you not open a door?"
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"Hark ye hither," said Bletson, pulling him aside, "sawest thou ever ass equal to Desborough?--the fellow is as big as an ox, and as timorous as a sheep.
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Certainly I was an ass to suspect your masters of subsisting, save at honest men's expense."
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"I reckon myself, now, a pretty good speaker of their cursed jargon--no offence, young gentleman; and yet, when I took a turn with some of Montrose's folk, in the South Highlands, as they call their beastly wildernesses, (no offence again,) I chanced to be by myself, and to lose my way, when I said to a shepherd-fellow, making my mouth as wide, and my voice as broad as I could, _whore am I ganging till?_--confound me if the fellow could answer me, unless, indeed, he was sulky, as the bumpkins will be now and then to the gentlemen of the sword."
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"Well," replied Wildrake, "it is at Woodstock they want you.--Rat it, did I say the Lodge?--No, no--Woodstock--Mine host cannot be hanged--his daughter married--his bastard christened, or his wife buried--without the assistance of a _real_ clergyman--Your Holdenoughs won't do for them.--He's a true man mine host; so, as you value your function, make haste."
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"Silly slut," said the old knight--"She a woodman's daughter!--But, Joceline, if the deer gets dangerous, you must send a broad arrow through him."
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puppy, fool, and blockhead," said the knight, "wouldst thou ask Doctor Rochecliffe to bear thee company at this hour?--Out, hound!--get down to the kennel yonder instantly, or I will break the knave's pate of thee."
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"No--no--no," answered Sir Henry; "Phoebe, the silly slut, has, as you well know, been in fits to-night, and I take it, such a walk as you must take is no charm for hysterics--Dame Jellicot hobbles as slow as a broken-winded mare--besides, her deafness, were there occasion to speak to her--No--no--you shall go alone and entitle yourself to have it written on your tomb, 'Here lies she who saved the King!'
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"So please your idiocy, thou art an ass," said Cromwell; but, instantly recollecting that the corporal had been one of the adjutators or tribunes of the common soldiers, and was therefore to be treated with suitable respect, he said, "Nevertheless, if it be the device of Satan, please it the Lord we will resist him, and the foul slave shall fly from us.--Pearson," he said, resuming his soldierlike brevity, "take four file, and see what is yonder--No--the knaves may shrink from thee.
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Mr. Baxter was," he was about to say "an ass," but checked himself, and only filled up the sentence with "a good man, I dare say, but over scrupulous."