Fuck as read from Dictionary.com:
1495–1505; akin to MD fokken to thrust, copulate with, Sw dial
There you go. Fuck was invented around the same time guns were used as much as they are in Fable II, so if we were to assume Fable II takes place in a realistic time then I would assume that people would say fuck. A little research helps everyone leave behind ignorance (I'm not saying that I knew either, which is why I looked it up instead of guessing.).
Edit: Read some more and here's something interesting from dictionary.com:
Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, "Flen flyys," from the first words of its opening line, "Flen, flyys, and freris," that is, "fleas, flies, and friars." The line that contains fuck reads "Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk." The Latin words "Non sunt in coeli, quia," mean "they [the friars] are not in heaven, since." The code "gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk" is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields "fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli." The whole thus reads in translation: "They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge]."
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