Do we say baud or bawd

baud 22 occurrences

forc'd me to quit the House, lest the Constable had done it for me; then that that silly Baud should discover all to my Cully.

E'en your trusty and well-beloved Friend, Mrs. Driver the Baud.

Just as the Baud said; yet I am mollify'dnay, dear Betty, forgive me, and I'll be very good for the future.

some Baud I am sure;Woman, what's your Business here? ha.

'Tis a Baud.

This is a very ignorant running Baud,therefore first search her for Billets-Doux, and then have her pump'd.

Semperque dixit amicis, pacem animi baud reperiundam, nisi in magno Mosis praecepto de sincere amore Dei et hominis bene observato.

These are, as some infamous baud or whore, Should praise a matron: What could hurt her more?

Nay, then she is not fit to be a baud, but tell me did you ever see her, or if so did you ever doo't with her? Un.

I came into one of their houses tother day for a carreere, and I found the baud sick upon her death bed, very religious and much given to repentance for those poore sins she had comitted.

Ubi omnibus, quae virum civemque bonum decent, officiis satisfecisset, Paulatim se a publicis consiliis in otium recipiens, Inter literarum amoenitates, Inter ante-actae vitae baud insuaves recordationes, Inter amicorum convictus et amplexus, Honorifice consenuit; Et bonis omnibus, quibus charissimus vixit, Desideratissimus obiit.

A Baud! hold my breast, a bitter curse Seize me, if I forget not all respects That are Religious, on another word Sounded like that, and through a Sea of sins Will wade to my revenge, though I should call Pains here, and after life upon my soul.

The radix, in baud, has thus the second person thou in ke; and the objective inflection, iz-ze, means a person in a general sense.

By Marcelle Baud.

Marcelle Baud (A); 7Nov77; R682923. R682924.

By Marcelle Baud.

Marcelle Baud (A); 7Nov77; R682923. R682924.

Then be a Baud, I'le have thee a brave Baud.

Then be a Baud, I'le have thee a brave Baud.

Durty December doe, Thou with a face as old as Erra Pater, such a Prognosticating nose: thou thing that ten years since has left to be a woman, outworn the expectation of a Baud; and thy dry bones can reach at nothing now, but gords or ninepins, pray goe fetch a trencher goe.

However, psychology will accept such unauthenticated narratives, and yet will scoff at first baud, duly corroborated testimony from living and honourable people, about recent events.

" "It shall come, ay, and by this baud!"

bawd 69 occurrences

Driver, A Bawd.

'One that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar.'

Is she a bawd that she should bargain?

[Query, mother Bawd; or is some celebrated procuress of the time when this play was written and acted meant here?]

I trulie: for the power of Beautie, will sooner transforme Honestie from what it is, to a Bawd, then the force of Honestie can translate Beautie into his likenesse.

And 'tis as hard to wrest a penny from him as from a bawd.

You beate the Bawd downe with the Chamber dore and bade her keepe that for the Reckoning. Lov.

He puts his money to the unnatural act of generation, and his scrivener is the supervisor bawd to it.

He hath salves for every sore, to hide them, not to heal them; complexion for every face; sin hath not any more artificial broker or more impudent bawd.

Vow virginity, talk of holiness, and yet indeed a notorious bawd, and famous fornicator, lascivum pecus, a very goat.

Another hath been a bawd, a pander to some great men, a parasite, a slave," "prostituted himself, his wife, daughter," to some lascivious prince, and for that he is exalted.

" The eye is a secret orator, the first bawd, Amoris porta, and with private looks, winking, glances and smiles, as so many dialogues they make up the match many times, and understand one another's meanings, before they come to speak a word.

Primum luxuriae, aucupium, one calls it, the first snare of lust; Bossus aucupium animarum, lethalem arundinem, a fatal reed, the greatest bawd, forte lenocinium, sanguineis lachrymis deplorandum, saith

" Thou thinkest, peradventure, because of her vows, tears, smiles, and protestations, she is solely thine, thou hast her heart, hand, and affection, when as indeed there is no such matter, as the Spanish bawd said, gaudet illa habere unum in lecto, alterum in porta, tertium qui domi suspiret, she will have one sweetheart in bed, another in the gate, a third sighing at home, a fourth, &c.

Such tricks you shall have in many places, and amongst the rest it is ordinary in Venice, and in the island of Zante, for a man to be bawd to his own wife.

" Many of them seem to be precise and holy forsooth, and will go to such a [6106]church, to hear such a good man by all means, an excellent man, when 'tis for no other intent (as he follows it) than "to see and to be seen, to observe what fashions are in use, to meet some pander, bawd, monk, friar, or to entice some good fellow."

Their sighs, and tears, and groans, are criminal in the eye of their tyrants, the bully and the bawd, who fatten on their misery, and threaten them with want or a gaol, if they show the least design of escaping from their bondage.

Next him, let railing Rabsheka have place, So full of zeal he has no need of grace; A saint that can both flesh and spirit use, 300 Alike haunt conventicles and the stews: Of whom the question difficult appears, If most i' th' preacher's or the bawd's arrears.

"A bawd, sir, fy upon him!"SHAK.:

I had never seen Shakespeare acted, and I went to the Lyceum and there I saw that exquisite love songfor Romeo and Juliet is no more than a love song in dialoguetricked out in silks and carpets and illuminated building, a vulgar bawd suited to the gross passion of an ignorant public.

In order to this the enclosed is sent you, which is verbatim the Copy of a Letter written by a Bawd of Figure in this Town to a noble Lord.

I'll once turn Bawd: go to, they are good mens offices, And not so contemptible as we take 'em for: And if she be above ground, and a Woman; I ask no more; I'll bring her o' my back, Sir, By this hand I will, and I had as lieve bring the Devil, I care not who she be, nor where I have her; And in your arms, or the next Bed deliver her, Which you think fittest, and when you have danc'd your galliard.

And you her Bawd.

And you her Bawd.

If this vile bawd had gone away in safety, she would have brought calamity [upon you]; remain here now as long as you please, and let this servant know whatever you require; he will procure it.

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