If you think you may have heard some good verbal
abuse or takedowns recently (relating to certain politicians) it may be good to
brush up on your Shakespeare.
For instance how about this one from King
Lear (Act II Scene II):-
Earl
of Kent. Fellow I know thee.
Oswald. What dost thou know me for?
Earl
of Kent. A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken
meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy,
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass
gazing, super serviceable, finical rogue; one trunk inheriting slave; one that
wouldst be a bawd, in a way of good service, and art nothing but the
composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and son and heir of a mongrel
bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least
syllable of thy addition.
Oswald. Why, what a monstrous fellow are thou, thus to rail on one that is
neither known to thee or knows thee.
Earl
of Kent. What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to
deny thou knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up thy heels, and beat
thee before the king? Draw you rogue: for though it be night, yet the moon
shines; I’ll make a sop o’ the moonshine of you: draw you whoreson cullionly
barber-monger, draw. (Drawing his sword).
Politicians take note!!
A masterful use of English and without
vulgarity or a four-letter “f” word
anywhere.
NOTE: Definition of a pandar = a pimp.
Definition
of cullionly = mean or base.
1 comment:
Very well worded! I am glad you put the definitions at the end otherwise I would have had to Google them :-)
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