What are Shakespeare insults?

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Shakespeare insults are insults, using the Elizabethan language.

_Ex. From Henry IV ^{part 1}

"Thou clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson obscene greasy tallow-catch!"

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