Vulgar words in Romance of the Rabbit (Page 1)

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I am passing along the road like a laden ass of which the children make mock and which lowers the head.

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They have told me this, and also that my mother and I and a little lamb to which a ewe had given birth on that same day were carried home on an ass.

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There was an ass among the wooden animals.

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I wanted to pray, and to say to it: "Little ass, you are my brother.

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Little ass, the goad pricks you.

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* * * * * Poor gray sisters of the brook that I find on the plain, you are tarnished stones, on you falls the shower of rain that the sparrow may drink, you are struck by the foot of the she-ass, you are the guardians that form the inclosures of miserable gardens, it is you who are the concave threshold and the stone at the edge of the well worn smooth by the chain of the bucket, you are servants, poor things become shiny like the blades of implements of husbandry, you are heated in the hearth of the poor to warm the feet of old women, you are hollowed out for mean needs and become the humble table for the dog and the sow, you are pierced so that the singing harvest may be ground beneath the millstone, you are cut, you are taken, you are tossed aside, on you the wanderer will sleep, Oh, you under whom I shall sleep.... You have not guarded your independence like your alpine companions.

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