Thursday, January 25, 2007

Insults, Shakespeare style.

From the Shakespeare's Insults calendar:

Thy bones are marrowless, thy
blood is cold.
Thou hast no speculation* in
those eyes,
Which thou dost glare with.
(Macbeth 3.4.94-96)

*speculation - intelligence, power of rational observation

Macbeth to the ghost of Banquo, whom he murdered


He's a rank weed...
And we must root him out.
(The Life of King Henry the Eighth 5.1.52-53)

Gardiner, of Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury

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