Etiquette Lessons from Shakespeare, Part 1

INCORRECT:

KENT: Is not this your son, my lord?

GLOUCESTER: His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have so often blush’d to acknowledge him, that now I am braz’d to it.

KENT: I cannot conceive you.

Shakespeare GLOUCESTER: Sir, this young fellow’s mother could; whereupon she grew round-womb’d, and had indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed. Do you smell a fault?

KENT: I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper.

GLOUCESTER: But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account. Though this knave came something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.

CORRECT:

KENT: Is not this your son, my lord?

GLOUCESTER: Yes.

2 Responses to Etiquette Lessons from Shakespeare, Part 1

  1. Bob Kaercher January 7, 2008 at 11:10 pm #

    Brevity is the soul of wit.

  2. Kevin Carson January 16, 2008 at 1:33 am #

    That would make a nice Goofus and Gallant panel.

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