King Lear; Act II, Scene ii: First Folio

This speech is used in our interview with Paul Sugarman

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Kent
1086  Fellow, I know thee.

Oswald
1087  What dost thou know me for?

Kent
1088  A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, 
1089  hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-
1090  gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave. One that wouldst be a bawd in 1091  way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and 1092  the son and heir of a mongrel bitch--one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st 1093  the least syllable of thy addition.

Oswald
1094  Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail on one that is neither known of thee, nor knows thee?

Kent
1095  What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou knowest me! Is it two days since I tripped up thy 1096  heels and beat thee before the king? [Drawing his sword] Draw, you rogue, for though it be night 1097  yet the moon shines. I'll make a sop o'th'moonshine of you, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger. 1098  Draw!