Vulgar words in Emblems Of Love (Page 1)

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spunk x 1
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They never leave, down all its patient way, To meddle with its waters, till they be sour As venom, salt as weeping, foully ailing With foreign evil,--all the sort of desires Whoring the shuddering life unto their lust.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 741   ~   ~   ~

I, Sappho, have made love the mastery Most sacred over man; but I have made it A safety of things gloriously known, To house his spirit from the darkness blowing Out of the vast unknown: from me he hath The wilful mind to make his fortune fair.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,153   ~   ~   ~

A chap may be as rough as brick, if you like, Yes, or a mannikin and grow a tail,-- If he's the spunk in him to love a girl Mainly and heartily, he's the man for her.-- My soul, I've done with all you pretty men; I want to stand in a thing as big as a wind; And I can only get your paper fans!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,664   ~   ~   ~

Nor beast, Nor man, but one of those lascivious gods Our lonely God detests, Chemosh or Baal Or Peor who goes whoring among women.

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