Vulgar words in The Dramatic Values in Plautus (Page 1)
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Even in antiquity the wiseacres took our royal buffoon too seriously.
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A single striking example from Shakespeare will furnish a parallel, in the well-known lines from _Macbeth_: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon, Where gott'st thou that goose look?
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Note the violent efforts of the two slaves to wheedle the cunning ass-dealer (449 ff.).
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(_Hopping about with rabid gestures._) You filthy pimp, you mud-heap, you common dung-hill, you besmirched, corrupt, law-breaking decoy, you public sewer, ... robber, mobber, jobber, ...!
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(_Aside._) God bless me, but Scapha's clever; the hussy has horse-sense.... PHILEM.
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But all through this scene Sosia is prancing around, prating nonsense, and playing the buffoon, so that perchance even here the nobility becomes but a foil for the revelry.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 47 ~ ~ ~
Even in antiquity the wiseacres took our royal buffoon too seriously.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 398 ~ ~ ~
A single striking example from Shakespeare will furnish a parallel, in the well-known lines from _Macbeth_: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon, Where gott'st thou that goose look?
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Note the violent efforts of the two slaves to wheedle the cunning ass-dealer (449 ff.).
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(_Hopping about with rabid gestures._) You filthy pimp, you mud-heap, you common dung-hill, you besmirched, corrupt, law-breaking decoy, you public sewer, ... robber, mobber, jobber, ...!
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(_Aside._) God bless me, but Scapha's clever; the hussy has horse-sense.... PHILEM.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 1,357 ~ ~ ~
But all through this scene Sosia is prancing around, prating nonsense, and playing the buffoon, so that perchance even here the nobility becomes but a foil for the revelry.