Monday, May 11, 2009

Longest insult in Shakespeare

"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lilly-livered, action-taking whoreson glassgazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch, one whom I will beat into clamourous whining, if thou denyest the least syllable of the addition." King Lear Act II Scene II

thanks to Jim Cooper, a friend of my sister Sarah's who I met at the Parkfield Bluegrass Festival this past weekend.

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