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Wonder it is, that amongest so many pregnant wittes as the Ile of greate Brittanny hath produced, so many godlie and zelous preachers as England did somtime norishe, and amongest so many learned and men of graue iudgement, as this day by Iesabel are exiled, none is found so stowte of courage, so faithfull to God, nor louing to their natiue countrie, that they dare admonishe the inhabitantes of that Ile how abominable before God, is the Empire or Rule of a wicked woman, yea of a traiteresse and bastard.

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And therfore who soeuer receiueth of a woman[148], office or authoritie, are adulterous and bastard officers before God.

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John Lord Gower ROBERT CRAWFORD The Bush aboon Traquair THOMAS TICKELL To the Earl of Warwick, on the death of Mr Addison JAMES HAMMOND Elegy XIII SEWELL, VANBRUGH, &c. RICHARD SAVAGE The Bastard THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER An American Love Ode JONATHAN SWIFT Baucis and Philemon On Poetry On the Death of Dr Swift A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion-Club,1736 ISAAC WATTS Few Happy Matches The Sluggard The Rose A Cradle Hymn Breathing toward the Heavenly Country To the Rev.

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His 'Bastard,' indeed, displays considerable powers, stung by a consciousness of wrong into convulsive action; but his other works are nearly worthless, and his life was that of a proud, passionate, selfish, and infatuated fool, unredeemed by scarcely one trait of genuine excellence in character.

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THE BASTARD.

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In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran, The Muse exulting, thus her lay began: 'Blest be the Bastard's birth!

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He, kindling from within, requires no flame; He glories in a Bastard's glowing name.

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'Far nobler blessings wait the bastard's lot; Conceived in rapture, and with fire begot!

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Not beggar's brat on bulk begot; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews; Not infants dropped, the spurious pledges Of gipsies littering under hedges, Are so disqualified by fate To rise in church, or law, or state, As he whom Phoebus in his ire Hath blasted with poetic fire.

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The hawker shows you one in print, As fresh as farthings from a mint: The product of your toil and sweating, A bastard of your own begetting.

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[30] 'Bout kirk an' market eke their tales gae on; How Jock woo'd Jenny here to be his bride; An' there, how Marion, for a bastard son, Upo' the cutty-stool was forced to ride; The waefu' scauld o' our Mess John to bide.

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The Bastard SAVAGE, iii.

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John Lord Gower ROBERT CRAWFORD The Bush aboon Traquair THOMAS TICKELL To the Earl of Warwick, on the death of Mr Addison JAMES HAMMOND Elegy XIII SEWELL, VANBRUGH, &c. RICHARD SAVAGE The Bastard THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER An American Love Ode JONATHAN SWIFT Baucis and Philemon On Poetry On the Death of Dr Swift A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion-Club,1736 ISAAC WATTS Few Happy Matches The Sluggard The Rose A Cradle Hymn Breathing toward the Heavenly Country To the Rev.

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His 'Bastard,' indeed, displays considerable powers, stung by a consciousness of wrong into convulsive action; but his other works are nearly worthless, and his life was that of a proud, passionate, selfish, and infatuated fool, unredeemed by scarcely one trait of genuine excellence in character.

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THE BASTARD.

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In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran, The Muse exulting, thus her lay began: 'Blest be the Bastard's birth!

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He, kindling from within, requires no flame; He glories in a Bastard's glowing name.

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'Far nobler blessings wait the bastard's lot; Conceived in rapture, and with fire begot!

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Not beggar's brat on bulk begot; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews; Not infants dropped, the spurious pledges Of gipsies littering under hedges, Are so disqualified by fate To rise in church, or law, or state, As he whom Phoebus in his ire Hath blasted with poetic fire.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 7,511   ~   ~   ~

The hawker shows you one in print, As fresh as farthings from a mint: The product of your toil and sweating, A bastard of your own begetting.

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[30] 'Bout kirk an' market eke their tales gae on; How Jock woo'd Jenny here to be his bride; An' there, how Marion, for a bastard son, Upo' the cutty-stool was forced to ride; The waefu' scauld o' our Mess John to bide.

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The Bastard SAVAGE, iii.

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I am a bastard, am I?"

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She rebelled against being wed to a man whose father ran about the world compassing murder, to a man who was withal a low fellow, a bastard.

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"Arthur," said he, in a hollow whisper, "those children are our disgrace and your supplanters; they are bastards!

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bastards!

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No one heeded him at that hour--no one heeded the fatherless BASTARD.

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The elder of these bastards turned out a sad fellow, and the younger,--I don't know exactly where he is, but no doubt with one of his mother's relations.

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"Arthur," said he, in a hollow whisper, "those children are our disgrace and your supplanters; they are bastards!

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bastards!

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No one heeded him at that hour--no one heeded the fatherless BASTARD.

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The elder of these bastards turned out a sad fellow, and the younger,--I don't know exactly where he is, but no doubt with one of his mother's relations.

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Moreover, I tell you that in love or war I hold myself the equal of any woman-thief and bastard in this kingdom, who am one of a name that has been honoured in my own."

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"Well," replied Wildrake, "it is at Woodstock they want you.--Rat it, did I say the Lodge?--No, no--Woodstock--Mine host cannot be hanged--his daughter married--his bastard christened, or his wife buried--without the assistance of a _real_ clergyman--Your Holdenoughs won't do for them.--He's a true man mine host; so, as you value your function, make haste."

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Nothing is clearer than that Molly Brant, who with her bastard brood and other Mohawk women was then living there, sent up an emissary to warn her brother Joseph of our coming, and that it was upon this information he acted to such fell purpose.

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When suddenly a bastard adventurer appears, who demands that I abet his filthy scheme.

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Old Sir James died about five years ago, always protesting this bastard was his own child, though every one knew it was a lie.

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It was a fine picture with the bastard Ferdinand in her arms--the proof of our shame.

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No--this should never go to the bastard Ferdinand, whose life in Constantinople was a disgrace.

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It would be too infamous to let Ardayre go to the bastard, Ferdinand, the snake-charmer's son, if, as is quite possible, I shall be killed in the coming time."

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'No matter for that--Thou threatest me, last night, that thou wouldst swear thy bastard to me.'

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If it mun be a bastard, thou well knowest it is a bastard of thy own begetting.'

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'I'll make thee repent taunting me, as thou hast done, afore folks; and _threaping_ and _threating_ to lay thy bastard at my door.'

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'I'll teach thee to swear thy ugly bastard brat to me!'

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Mr. Elford and his attendants soon came up; and the remainder of the story of poor Mary was, that, being removed and put to bed, her wounds though deep and dangerous were found not to be mortal; that she recovered in a few weeks, and by the influence of Mr. Elford was retained in my aunt's service; to the great scandal of the place, where it was affirmed that such hussies and their bastards ought to be whipped from parish to parish, and so, as I suppose, whipped out of the world; that in two months time she was delivered of a fine boy, whom, when my uncle left the country, she maintained by her own hard earnings; and that in the extremity of her distress, when she thought herself at the point of death, she obstinately refused to declare who was her intended murderer; and though, by his having been known to be her _sweetheart_, and his flight from the country where he never more appeared, people were sufficiently convinced who the man was, yet her pertinacious theme was--_she would never be his accuser: if God could pardon him, she could_.

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The principal woods exported are mahogany, guayacan, known to commerce as lignum vitae (one of the hardest woods and so heavy that when in loading the steamer a log drops into the sea it sinks to the bottom like iron), bera or bastard lignum vitae, espinillo or yellowwood, campeche or logwood (a famous dyeing material), sparwood and cedar.

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Come on, you cowardly assassin, you bastard parricide!"

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[Illustration: "BASTARD!

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"I see that to get it I should have to consent to make my wife a concubine, my son a bastard.

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In the midst of a park of great extent, and eminent for scenery, as varied as might please nature's most capricious lover; in the midst of green lawns and deep winding glens, and cooling streams, and wild forest, and soft woodland, there was gradually formed an elevation, on which was situate a mansion of great size, and of that bastard, but picturesque style of architecture, called the Italian Gothic.

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And that lord is restless on some downy couch; his night thoughts, not of this sheeny lake and this bright moon, but of some miserable creation of man's artifice, some mighty nothing, which Nature knows not of, some offspring of her bastard child, Society.

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Worthy of being a companion of the fighting bastards of the middle ages.

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Bon bastard c'est d'avanture, meschant c'est la nature.

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I make the noble love the bastard in degree; I tame and temper all the tongues that rail and scoff at me.

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Now serves the time to wreak me of my foe-- My bastard foe--that to dishonour me In privy corners seeks to shame me so, That my discredit might his credit be.

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MY DEAR FRIEND,--I have just time for the carrier, to tell you that I received your letter, of which I shall say no more but what a lass of my acquaintance said of her bastard wean; she said she "didna ken wha was the father exactly, but she suspected it was some o' thae bonny blackguard smugglers, for it was like them."

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Love, for them, is another thing; it is to go out veiled, to write in secret, to make trembling advances, to heave chaste sighs under a starched and unnatural robe, then to draw bolts and throw it aside, to humiliate a rival, to deceive a husband, to render a lover desolate; to love, for our women, is to play at lying, as children play at hide and seek, the hideous debauchee of a heart, worse than all the lubricity of the Romans, or the Saturnalia of Priapus; bastard parody of vice itself as well as of virtue; loathsome comedy where all is whispering and oblique glances, where all is small, elegant and deformed like the porcelain monsters brought from China; lamentable derision of all that is beautiful and ugly, divine and infernal; a shadow without a body, a skeleton of all that God has made."

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Show me some bastard mushrooms Sprung from a pollution of blood.

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of Marazion 4 George Borlase, Attorney at Law, of Penzance William Bastard, of Exon Joseph Batten John Beard, jun.

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What time William the bastard subdued this Realme, one Condor possessed the Earledome of Cornwall, and did homage for the same: he had issue another Condor, whose daughter and heire Agnes, was maried to Reignald Earle of Bristowe, base sonne to King Henry the first.

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Foure Coroners, chosen by the voyces of the freeholders, do serue the shire, who for the present are, Bligh, Tub, Trenance, and Bastard.

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It breedeth a peculiar kind of bastard Trought, in bignesse and goodnes exceeding such as liue in the fresh water, but comming short of those that frequent the salt.

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Then even as the Italian Potentates of these Dayes make no difference in their Pedigrees and Successions, between'the Bed lawfull or unlawfull, where either an utterward or a better desert doth force or entice them thereunto: so may the consenting practise of these Nations passe for a just Legitimation of these bastard Words, which either Necessitie or Convenience hath induced them to adopt.

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Then follows an extraordinary string of anatomical, medical, scientific, and Talmudic questions about the optic nerves; the teeth; why a man lowers his head when thinking over things he has never known, but raises his head when thinking over what he once knew but has forgotten; the physiology of the digestive organs, the physiology of laughter; why a boy eats more than a man; why it is harder to ascend a hill than to go down; why snow is white; why babies have no teeth; why children's first set of teeth fall out; why saddest tears are saltest; why sea water is heavier than fresh; why hail descends in summer; why the sages said that bastards are mostly clever.

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I give up my rights to my half-brother and my bastard brother--yes, my rights and my fortune.

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Our ears are sick with all this bastard English.

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Nay, I almost wish him success against all countries but this,--were it only to choke the 'Morning Post', and his undutiful father-in-law, with that rebellious bastard of Scandinavian adoption, Bernadotte.

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Five months later Louis XIV died, forsaken by his intriguing wife, his beloved bastard (the Due de Maine), and his dreaded priest.

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It was enough that the child of a "convert" or a bastard (all bastards were reputed Catholic) should enter a Protestant church for the exercise of worship, to be interdicted there.

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MS., a species closely allied to E. HOEMATOMMA Sm., but the marginal nerve is not so close to the edge of the leaf (this is the "bastard box" of the carpenters); a fine new large-flowered SIDA[*]; and it appears that the "Yarra" tree of the natives here, is a new Eucalyptus, which Sir William Hooker calls E.

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No child was born of this marriage; but such was the infatuation of Duke Guidalfonso, that the new Duchess induced him to settle the inheritance of the Duchy (having, with great difficulty, obtained the consent of the Pope) on the boy Bartolommeo, her son by Stimigliano, but whom the Orsinis refused to acknowledge as such, declaring him to be the child of that Giovanfrancesco Pico to whom Medea had been married by proxy, and whom, in defense, as she had said, of her honor, she had assassinated; and this investiture of the Duchy of Urbania on to a stranger and a bastard was at the expense of the obvious rights of the Cardinal Robert, Guidalfonso's younger brother.

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'If ye be without chastisements, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and no sons!"

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These two, Gilbert Griffin and a 'bastard son of Spaine,' went to Rokeby clad in armour and carrying their shields and swords of war, and even then they only just overcame the grisly sow.

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Slade will have told you about him; he possessed quite a fund of bastard Voodooism: he possessed more before I got through with him.

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Would OAKEY HALL and PETER B. SWEENY put such a slight upon these bastard allies of the O'BRIENS and MORRISSEYS whose columns are open to the highest bidder, and whose lips reek venom while their hands are ever ready to strike a victim in the back, as to pass them by while they were on the war-path?

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Very scurvily, that is to say, be always fashionably drunk, despise the Tyranny of your Bed, and reign absolutely--keep a Seraglio of Women, and let my Bastard Issue inherit; be seen once a Quarter, or so, with you in the Park for Countenance, where we loll two several ways in the gilt Coach like _Janus_, or a Spread-Eagle.

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But I never suspected until to-night that I had the honor to be your half-brother, Rudolph--one of 'Wild Will's' innumerable bastards."

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The bastard of Falconberg, who had levied some forces, and had advanced to London during Edward's absence, was repulsed; his men deserted him; he was taken prisoner and immediately executed; and peace being now fully restored to the nation, a parliament was summoned, which ratified, as usual, all the acts of the victor, and recognized his legal authority.

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He despatched the Bastard of Bourbon, Admiral of France, and myself into those parts, with full power to receive the homage of all such as were willing to submit and become his subjects.

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[Illustration: IN THE NEW FOREST] No less than three members of the Conqueror's family were killed in the New Forest; first Richard, one of his sons, then another Richard, bastard son of Duke Robert of Normandy, this in May 1100; and in August of the same year, his son and successor William, surnamed Rufus.

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"And you, vile bastard," said Antar to him, "you son of a vile mother, must your honor be purchased at the expense of our disgrace?

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Page 126: the procession, the appearances of the Maid, of the Bastard Son of Orleans, and of Tremouille, are full of fire and fancy, and exquisite melody of versification.

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There are three sorts,--the grey, green, and bastard plover, or lapwing.

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For the blood of this aristocracy refuses to mix with that of churls and bastards, and flows pure and uncontaminated from century to century, descending in all its richness and vigor from Piromis to Piromis.

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The patriotism of the women is described by the Bastard in _King John_: Your own ladies and pale-visag'd maids Like Amazons come tripping after drums: Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change, Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts To fierce and bloody inclination.

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We cannot within the small compass of these lectures consider the excrescences of the normal Islâm, the Shî'itic ultras, who venerated certain descendants of Mohammed as infallible rulers of the world, Ishma'ilites, Qarmatians, Assassins; nor the modern bastards of Islâm, such as the Sheikhites, the Bâbî's, the Behâ'îs--who have found some adherents in America--and other sects, which indeed sprang up on Moslim soil, but deliberately turned to non-Mohammedan sources for their inspirations.

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Among the many phrases which Germans have coined to describe Belgium the following occur: bastard, eunuch and hermaphrodite.

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A brat, a bastard, and an idle boy: A[38] rod, a staff, a whip to beat him out!

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For fear of death can princes entertain Such bastard thoughts, that now from glorious arms Vouchsafe to draw like oxen in a plough?

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O, the shepherd's bastard?

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I tell you, the shepherd's bastard shall be well kept; I'll look to it myself.

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Rough wrathful words Are bastards got by rashness in the thoughts: Fair demeanours are virtue's nuptial babes, The offspring of the well-instructed soul; O, let them call thee mother, then, my wife!

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This was one of this penny-father's[268] bastards, For, on my life, he was never[269] begot Without the consent of some great proverb-monger.

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I hold my birthright to a beggar's scrip, The bastard is escaped in my clothes.

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I hear thee, Henry, and I thus reply: I do desire the death of bastard Gloster, For that he spends the Treasure of the Crown; I do desire the death of bastard Gloster, For that he doth desire to pull me down.

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Ay, I'll be one, in hope to meet the bastard, And then no more: myself will be his headsman.

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On his death in 1383, Portugal was within an ace of falling into the clutches of Castile, but the Cortes conferred the kingship on a bastard of the royal house, John, Master of the Knights of Aviz; and he, aided by five hundred English archers, inflicted a crushing defeat on the Spaniards at Aljubarrota, the Portuguese Bannockburn.

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