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A few pages farther on the "bonny-sweet Robin" of Ophelia's song is supposed by the translator to be a bird, as he thus renders the passage Car le gentil Robin n'est un oiseau de proie Il fait tout ma joie It is also exceedingly amusing to note how the old adjective "whoreson" bothers M. de Chatelain, who seems to consider it a word of weight and meaning.— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
E. Thou whoreson, senseless villain Dro.— The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
A whoreson, barren, wicked urchin BOY.— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7
Dow. You whoreson, bragging coystril Enter KITELY Kit Why, how now!— Every Man in His Humor

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