Vulgar words in Jane Shore - A Tragedy (Page 1)

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 183   ~   ~   ~

Am I not scorn'd, forsaken, and abandon'd; Left, like a common wretch, to shame and infamy; Giv'n up to be the sport of villains' tongues, Of laughing parasites, and lewd buffoons?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 372   ~   ~   ~

By right grave authority Of learning and religion, plainly proving, A bastard scion never should be grafted Upon a royal stock; from thence at full Discoursing on my brother's former contract To lady Elizabeth Lucy, long before His jolly match with that same buxom widow, The queen he left behind him---- _Lord H._ Ill befall Such meddling priests, who kindle up confusion, And vex the quiet world with their vain scruples!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 382   ~   ~   ~

Who can remember this, and not, like me, Here vow to sheath a dagger in his heart, Whose damn'd ambition would renew those horrors, And set once more that scene of blood before us?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 406   ~   ~   ~

I hold it certain, The puling, whining, harlot rules his reason, And prompts his zeal for Edward's bastard brood.

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