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1 Henry VI: giglot
From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 1 (IV: 7):
JOAN LA PUCELLE:
Once I encounter’d him, and thus I said:
‘Thou maiden youth, be vanquish’d by a maid:’
But, with a proud majestical high scorn,
He answer’d thus: ‘Young Talbot was not born
To be the pillage of a giglot wench:’
giglot: A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl.
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1 Henry VI: churlish
From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 1 (IV: 1):
GLOUCESTER:
What means his grace, that he hath changed his style?
No more but, plain and bluntly, ‘To the king!’
Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?
Or doth this churlish superscription
Pretend some alteration in good will?
churlish: Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar.
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1 Henry VI: Gloucester castigates Winchester
From William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, part 1 (III: 1):
GLOUCESTER (to Bishop of Winchester):
Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience,
Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour’d me.
Think not, although in writing I preferr’d
The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,
That therefore I have forged, or am not able
Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen:
No, prelate; such [...]
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Now that is one good insult
From Yahoo! News (March 2004):
Andy Rooney certainly knows how to stir the passion in his viewers. The ‘60 Minutes’ curmudgeon said Sunday he got 30,000 pieces of mail and e-mail in response to his Feb. 22 commentary, in which he called ‘The Passion of the Christ’ filmmaker Mel Gibson a ‘wacko.’
It’s the biggest viewer response [...]
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