Dr. Hurlbutt’s abusive quotation of the day for April 14, 2009

Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at 3:56 pm, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.

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-stockinged knave; a lily-liver’d, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, 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 clamorous whining, if thou deny the least syllable of thy addition.

  —  William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act II, Scene 2.