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 A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, 
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy 
worsted-stocking read more 
 A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, 
shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy 
worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-faking, whoreson, 
glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; 
one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of 
good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, 
beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; 
one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the 
least syllable of thy addition. 
Whip me such honest knaves!
Whip me such honest knaves!
 There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark
 But he's an arrant knave.  
 There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark
 But he's an arrant knave. 
 Knavery's now its own reward.
 [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]  
 Knavery's now its own reward.
 [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.] 
 Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best 
defence against a knave.  
 Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best 
defence against a knave.