Quoting the Bard is always highbrow, right?

Shakespeare always had a word for it. Especially insults. Can you complete these juicy bits of erudite vituperation?

Fill in the blanks.

1. Thou art like a ____, ugly and venomous.
2. A ______ hath not such a deal of spleen as you are toss’d with.
3. You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I’ll tickle your ____________!
4. Thy tongue outvenoms all the _____ of Nile.
5. You have such a _________ face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness
6. Go, prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-liver’d ___.
7. Out of my sight! thou dost infect my ____!
8. I do desire that we may be better __________.
9. There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed _____.
10. Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted _____.

Want some help with your 16th-century insults? Click on the picture for answers.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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