Vulgar words in The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 (Page 1)
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'Gainst princes offences Proved in all senses, But 'gainst a whig there is no truth in evidences; They sham us, and flam us, And ram us, and damn us.
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_King._ Stay, madam, stay; come back, forgive my fears, Where all our thoughts should creep like deepest streams: Know, then, I hate aspiring Guise to death; Whored Margarita,--plots upon my life,-- And shall I not revenge?
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_Mal._ Perhaps I have: (How right the blockhead hits!)
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I'll rend it out, And damn the rabble all at once in him.
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O cowards!--Damn these half-strained shopkeepers, got between gentlemen and city wives; how naturally they quake, and run away from their own fathers!
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_Gril._ Sir, I have eaten and drank in my own defence, when I was hungry and thirsty; I have plundered, when you have not paid me; I have been content with a farmer's daughter, when a better whore was not to be had.
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_Gril._ The effect Of last night's lechery with some working whore[22].
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Most of them love all whores, but her of Babylon.
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"Don Pedro, king of Castile, surnamed the Cruel, who had been restored by the valour of our Edward the Black Prince, was finally dispossessed by Don Henry, the bastard, and he enjoyed the kingdom quietly, till his death; which when he felt approaching, he called his son to him, and gave him this his last counsel.
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But our author finds, that commendation is no more his talent, than flattery was that of Æsop's ass; and therefore falls immediately, from pawing with his fore-feet, and grinning upon one prince, to downright braying against another.
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A third cried,--Damn my blood, I'll be content To push my fortune, if the parliament Would but recal claret from banishment.
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[_Exit with his Master._ _Must._ Something of a secret, and of the king, I heard him mutter: a pimp, I warrant him, for I am sure he is an old courtier.
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_Must._ Horse or ass, that's as thy mother made thee: but take earnest, in the first place, for thy sauciness.--[_Lashes him with his Whip._]--Be advised, friend, and buckle to thy geers: Behold my ensign of royalty displayed over thee.
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The whore-son is broken-winded.
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_Must._ Good my lord, take pity upon a poor man in this world, and damn me in the next.
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_Mor._ And a great credit for me to be so: Do but think how decent a habit you have on, and how becoming your function to be disguised like a slave, and eaves-dropping under the women's windows, to be saluted, as you deserve it richly, with a piss-pot.
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_3 Rabble._ A scolding domineering wife, if she prove honest; and, if a whore, a fine gaudy minx, that robs our counters every night, and then goes out, and spends it upon our cuckold-makers.
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This is not Lisbon; nor the circle this, Where, like a statue, thou hast stood besieged By sycophants and fools, the growth of courts; Where thy gulled eyes, in all the gaudy round, Met nothing but a lie in every face, And the gross flattery of a gaping crowd, Envious who first should catch, and first applaud, The stuff of royal nonsense: When I spoke, My honest homely words were carped and censured For want of courtly style; related actions, Though modestly reported, passed for boasts; Secure of merit if I asked reward, Thy hungry minions thought their rights invaded, And the bread snatched from pimps and parasites.
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_Mor._ Excuse me there; that league should have been rather Betwixt your mother and my Mufti father; 'Tis for my own and my relations' credit, Your friends should bear the bastard, mine should get it.