Thursday, February 01, 2007

Insults, Shakespeare style.

From the Shakespeare's Insults calendar:

Tush...though it pass your
patience and mine to endure her loud
alarums, why, man, there be good fellows
in the world, an* a man could
light on them, would take her with all
her faults, and money enough.
(The Taming of the Shrew 1.1.125-129)

* if

Hortensio to Gremio, of the notoriously difficult Kate; both men are suitors of Kate's sister, Bianca.


But that I hate thee deadly,
I should lament thy miserable state.
(The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth 1.4.84-85)

Queen Margaret to York, whom her forces have captured; York believes he is the true king of England.

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