Such smiling Rogues as these Like Rats oft bite the holy cords a-twain, which are t'intrince t'unloose, smooth every Passion That in the
Natures of their Lords rebel; being oil to Fire, Snow
to the colder moods. Revenge, affirm, & turn their Halcyon - beaks with
every gall and vary of their masters, knowing naught, like dogs but following.
By Kent,
in King Lear (TLN1146-1153),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 95
Bastardy? base, base? Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to creatinga whole tribe of fops, Got 'tween asleep and wake?
By Edmund,
in King Lear (TLN344-349),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 81
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest, lend less than thou owest, ride more than thou goest, learn more than thou trowest, set less than thou throwest, Leave thy drink and thy whore, And keep in-a-door & thou shalt have more than two tens to a score.
By Fool,
in King Lear (TLN648-657),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 81
A lily livered action-taking, a whoreson glass-glazingsuper-serviceablefinical rogue, a one trunk inheriting slave ; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will
beat into clamorous whining
By Kent,
in King Lear (TLN1090-1096),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 81
Thou whoreson Zed, thou unnecessary letter. My lord, if you will give me leaveI will tread this
unbolted villain into mortar, & daub the wall of a jakes with him
By Kent,
in King Lear (TLN1138-1140),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 82
The cockney did to the eels when she put them in the paste alive; she knapped'em o' the coxcombs with a stick and cried down, wantons down! 'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay
By Fool,
in King Lear (TLN1399-1402),
William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 97, p. 82