Vulgar words in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 (Page 1)

This book at a glance

(one's) ass x 1
ass x 19
cuss x 1
damn x 3
make love x 1
            
whore x 3
            

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He, like a fop and an ass, must be making himself a public laughingstock, and have no thank for his labour; where other Magisterii, whose invention is far more exquisite, are content to sit still and do nothing.

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Thus, we may see, the longer we live the more we shall learn: I ne'er thought honesty an ass till this day.

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Solstitium is an ass, perdy, this play is a gallimaufry.

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_Enter_ BACCHUS _riding upon an ass trapped in ivy, himself dressed in vine leaves, and a garland of grapes on his head; his companions having all jacks in their hands, and ivy garlands on their heads; they come singing.

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What an ass is this!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 744   ~   ~   ~

No such deformer of the soul and sense, As is this swinish damn'd horn drunkenness.

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A weatherbeaten, bankrupt ass it is That scatters and consumeth all he hath: Each one do pluck from him without control.

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What an old ass was that.

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[118] Folly Erasmus sets a flourish on: For baldness a bald ass I have forgot Patch'd up a pamphletary periwig.

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Nothing can kill an ass but cold: cold entertainment, discouraging scoffs, authorised disgraces, may kill a whole litter of young asses of them here at once, that hath travelled thus far in impudence, only in hope to sit a-sunning in your smiles.

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O, my lord thinks me an ass.

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Vile ingratitude, Damn'd Judasism,[231] false wrong, abhorred treachery, Impious wickedness, wicked impiety!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,002   ~   ~   ~

The Golden Ass and Cupid and Psyche, by Thomas Dekker, John Day, and Henry Chettle, April 1600.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,255   ~   ~   ~

Art thou a man, and canst be such a beast, Ass-like to bear the burthen of thy wrongs?

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O God, have mercy on thee, silly ass!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 6,804   ~   ~   ~

Postilion, stay, thou drugg'st on like an ass.

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More shame for you, to keep your ass so lean!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,006   ~   ~   ~

Let me yet have some room for mine ass.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,012   ~   ~   ~

Look forth and see: a lubber, fat, great and tall, Upon a tired ass, bare, short and small.

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Well, since che see there is none other boot, Chill now take pains to go the rest afoot; For Brock mine ass is saddle-pinch'd vull sore, And so am I even here--chill say no more.

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By the body of an ox, behold here this ass, Will be my familiar, wheresoever I pass.

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I chill coll thee, chill cuss thee.

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ay, and so highly, that if you do this feat for me, you hire me to you as one hireth an ox or an ass: to use, to ride, to spur, or anything; yours to demand, miserable Grim!

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Young heady boy, think'st thou thou shalt recall Thy long-made love, which thou so oft hast sworn, Making my maiden thoughts to doat on thee?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 9,318   ~   ~   ~

How now, thou whore, dishonour to my bed!

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Your friends, you whore!

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With her I liv'd in such a mild estate, Us'd her still kindly, lov'd her tenderly; Which she requited with such light regard, So loose demeanour, and dishonest life, That she was each man's whore, that was my wife.

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[231] The 4to has it _Damn'd Judaism_, but the allusion is to the treachery of Judas.

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