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utter obscenities or profanities; or to speak disrespectfully of something considered sacred — especially of God or religion
- —O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accurs'd And does blaspheme his breed?4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — England. Before the King's Palace (44% in)
- Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangl'd babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,— Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, For the ingredients of our caldron.4.1 — Act 4 Scene 1 — A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling (14% in)
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