Vulgar words in The City Bride (1696) - Or The Merry Cuckold (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
blockhead x 2
damn x 9
whore x 5
            

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thou rare Copy of the Original, By which free Man at first received his fall; For she not only wou'd her self undo, And all her Sex, but Damn all Mankind too._ [_Exit._ _The End of the First Act._ ACT the Second.

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Od's death I'll hang thee, if there were never a Whore more in _London_, if thou hast.

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But read, read on, see how I'm fetter'd in a _Circe's_ Charms--I love beyond Imagination, love even to Madness, and must as madly do a Deed will damn me to the hottest Flames of Hell.

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Or how can any thing but damn'd Barbarity ensue a Woman's much more damn'd Design?

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On forfeit of thy Life that word no more; the very Name of Friend from thee, shall be a Quarrel: How can I tell but that thou lovest my Wife, and therefore feign'd this damn'd Design to draw me from her Arms?

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Thus for a Woman I've begun a War, And for her sake must damn my Soul like her._[Exit.

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_Comp._ Why thou white Bastard-breeder; Is not this Woman here the Mother?

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You may be as far from being the Father as I am, for my Wife's acquainted with more Whore-masters besides your self; ay, and as crafty Merchants too, let me tell you that.

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Mrs. _Ven._ Pray hold there Mrs. Jill-flurt, the Child's my Husband's, and he shall have it, or I'll tear your Eyes out, ye Whore you.

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_Dodge._ A Blockhead, to proclaim his own Disgrace, and make himself laugh'd at.

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_Comp._ And O how they will laugh at their Clients when they sit in a Tavern, and call them Fools, Blockheads and Coxcombs, and then whip up their Causes as nimbly as a Barber trims his Customers on a _Christmas-Eve_; a Snip, a Wipe and away.

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Court another at your Pleasure Win her in the Honey-moon, She may chance repent at leisure, For believing you too soon._ Man: _Leave your damn'd Fantastick Trials, Which procure a Lover's Pain, Pox upon these sham-Denials, 'Tis but spending time in vain.

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But it is damn'd Slavery, And Priestly Knavery, That Parsons must conjure e're Lovers be kind._ _Com._ So, so, here now shall we be Man and Wife again to Morrow, as good as ever.

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Why, Sirrah, Sirrah, do you call my Daughter Whore?

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_Mer._ Audacious Villain, O that I had thee in some private Corner, where none you'd either see or hear us, this Sword shou'd justify my Daughter's Honour; I'de Whore you with a Pox to you, so I wou'd.

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Unjustly therefore you your Fortune blame, She's kinder to your Blood that to your Name._ _After all this, I know you think it Pity, That I shou'd break the Custom of the City: I hear a Beau cry, 'tis some damn'd Mistaker; A_ Cheap-side _Vertue, City Cuckold maker.

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