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"Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!"
"Away, you mouldy rogue, away!"
"I scorn you, scurvy companion."
"Hang him, swaggering rascal!"
"There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
"'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!"
"Thou whoreson, senseless villain!"
"I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may."
"Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!"
"If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage."
"Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man."
"'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed"
"You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear."
"Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!"
"A fusty nut with no kernel."
"I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book."
"Why, this hath not a finger's dignity."
"...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy."
"Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment."
"A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?"