Vulgar words in Milton (Page 1)

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It was not difficult, he remarks, to see plays, "when in the Colleges so many of the young divines, and those in next aptitude to divinity, have been seen so often upon the stage, writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculoes, buffoons, and bawds."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 357   ~   ~   ~

And while he keeps them about him undiminished and unshorn, he may with the jawbone of an ass, that is, with the word of his meanest officer, suppress and put to confusion thousands of those that rise against his just power.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,499   ~   ~   ~

I will produce a verse and a half of his, in one of his Eclogues, to justify my opinion; and with commas after every word, to show that he has given almost as many lashes as he has written syllables: it is against a bad poet, whose ill verses he describes:-- _non tu, in triviis, indocte, solebas_ _Stridenti, miserum, stipula, disperdere, carmen?_" [Wouldst thou not, blockhead, in the public ways, Squander, on scrannel pipe, thy sorry lays?]

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Why should I then seek further store, And still make love anew; When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easie to be true.

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