Vulgar words in The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 (Page 1)
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About four in the afternoon Anjou rode through the crowded streets in company with his bastard brother Angoulême.
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It was the murderers seeking their victims: they were Henry of Guise with his uncle the Duke of Aumale, the bastard of Angoulême, and the Duke of Nevers, with other foreigners, Italian and Swiss, namely, Fesinghi (or Tosinghi) and his nephew Antonio, Captain Petrucci, Captain Studer of Winkelbach with his soldiers, Martin Koch of Freyberg, Conrad Burg, Leonard Grunenfelder of Glaris, and Carl Dianowitz, surnamed Behm (the Bohemian?).
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The bastard of Angoulême--the chevalier as he is called in some of the narratives--wiped the blood from the face of the corpse.
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Another allusion occurs in Lodge's _Wits' Miserie_, "and though this fiend be begotten of his father's own blood, yet is he different from his nature; and were he not sure that jealousie could not make him a cuckold, he had long since published him for a bastard: you shall know him by this, he is a foule lubber, his tongue tipt with lying, his heart steeled against charity; he walks for the most part in black under color of gravity, and looks as pale as the visard of the ghost which cried so miserably at the theator like an oister-wife,' _Hamlet, revenge_'."
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The pathetic lines of Goethe might seem to be written for his own case: "Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, Wer nicht die kummervollen Nächte Auf seinem Bette weinend sass, Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.