#1 2016-07-25 03:23:19
"We know who they were.
We know the approximate time (two in the afternoon),
and we know there were plenty of witnesses.
We also know exactly where the fight took place,
for when the case came to court,
the brawl was described as happening in the High Street , ‘under the Pentice’."
Last edited by JetRx (2016-07-25 08:53:34)
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#2 2016-07-25 18:26:04
monkeyboy writes...
That was wonderful, but I can't believe they got through it all without mentioning the most often-read string of early modern insult in the English language, Shakespeare's wonderful exposition by Kent in King Lear.
"A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liverd, action-taking knave; a whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; a 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, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
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