Vulgar words in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 (Page 1)
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A little would cause me to kill thee, thou ass-colt.
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See, see, for woe he is like for to piss: To give an attempt what a fellow were this?
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But it were better for you they were dumb, I suppose, For they labour to prove Rome by that acception The whore of Babylon, spoke of in the Revelation.
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I make the noble love the bastard in degree; I tame and temper all the tongues that rail and scoff at me.
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He'll do nothing all day long but sit on his arse, as my mother did when she made pouts: And then a' looks a' this fashion, and thus and thus again; and then, what do ye?
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Now serves the time to wreak me of my foe-- My bastard foe--that to dishonour me In privy corners seeks to shame me so, That my discredit might his credit be.
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What an ass art thou: couldst thou not all this time perceive, That I never sleep but when I am not awake, And I eat and I eat till my belly would ache?
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Now, sirrah, there was a little dappard[105] ass with her, that went before: When I saw him, I came in sneaking more and more.
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You are an ass.
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Will you venture your head, sirrah, blockhead you?
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You be de ass-head, me can tell dat's true.
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tell me of a turd.
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Out, you whore!
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I'll dress you for a whore.
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I have a cause to curse whores as long as I live.
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ye whore, I am not for your diet.
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I'll hang the whore out of hand; and as for you, villain,--stand, rascal!
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Hark the whore!
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See what an impudent whore it is.
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Sleep, you whore?
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I'll sleep with you anon, Gog's blood, you whore, I'll hang you up!
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What, Lucre, thou lookest like a whore, full of deadly hate.
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Come, give me my lady's gown, thou ass-headed elf.
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I think it is no pain to thee, that thou still playest the whore.
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The silly ass cannot feed on harder forage than Usury: she upon thistles, and I upon a brown crust of a month old.
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So that Usury and an ass are two of the profitablest beasts that a man can keep; yet th'one hath sharper teeth than th'other.
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Thus, like an ass attired in costly robes, Or like a ring thrust in a foul sow's snout, So do these robes and sceptre fit mine age.
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You that will damn yourselves for lucre's sake, And make no conscience to deceive the poor; You that be enemies of the commonwealth, To send corn over to enrich the enemy; And you that do abuse the word of God, And send over wool and tin, broad-cloth and lead; And you that counterfeit kings' privy-seals, And thereby rob the willing-minded commonalty; I warn you all that use such subtle villainy, Beware lest you, like these, be found by Honesty.
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[107] Middleton uses _squall_ for a wench in his "Michaelmas Term" and in "The Honest Whore," edit.