Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, February 27, 2012

Shakespearean Insulter

We can think of several applications of these phrases.

http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html

O, [thou art] as tedious as a tired horse, a railing wife, Worse than a smoky house.
Taken from: Henry IV, part I

Thou art essentially a natural coward without instinct.
Taken from: Henry IV, part I

[May] the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul.
Taken from: Richard III

[Thou art] already dead. stabbed with a white wench's black eye, run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of [thy] heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt shaft.
Taken from: Romeo and Juliet

[Thou art] a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.
Taken from: All's Well That Ends Well

God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another.
Taken from: Hamlet

Assume a virtue if you have it not. 
Taken from: Hamlet


Thou subtle, perjur'd, false, disloyal man!
Taken from: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Thou art the best o' th' cut-throats.
Taken from: Macbeth

Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.
Taken from: Love's Labour's Lost

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