Monday, October 24, 2011

Elizabethan Insults

Thou art a villainous, hell-hated harpy.
          Calling some one an evil mythical creature that has the head of a woman but the body of a bird.

Thou art nothing more than a frothy, loggerheaded coxcomb
          Calling someone a shallow, stupid and conceded foolish dandy.

Thou art a saucy, dissembling minnow
          Calling someone bodly smart, fake, small and insignificant

Thou art merely but a surly, lout, strumpet
          Calling someone a rude, dumb, prostitute.

Thou art but a Spleeny, Earth-Vexing Bugbear.
          Calling someone nothing more than an abundance of annoyance, that plagues the earth constantly.

1 comment:

  1. Jeez Eddy, you seem to be angry at somebody. If I didn't know any better, I'd take some of these kind of personally. I can't wait to see your translations

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