{"id":4194,"date":"2008-04-19T08:07:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/04\/19\/the-queens-own-english-base-knave-dost-thou-speak-it\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:26:25","slug":"the-queens-own-english-base-knave-dost-thou-speak-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/04\/19\/the-queens-own-english-base-knave-dost-thou-speak-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen&#8217;s own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5586,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/ceruleanst.livejournal.com\\\/151753.html?thread=1236681#t1236681&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308111253\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ceruleanst.livejournal.com\\\/151753.html?thread=1236681&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ceruleanst.livejournal.com\\\/151753.html?thread=1236681&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5587,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/19\\\/shakespeares-pulp-fi.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240422192557\\\/https:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2008\\\/04\\\/19\\\/shakespeares-pulp-fi.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:10:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:10:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A bit of pseudo-Shakespearean silliness, originally by <a href=\"http:\/\/ceruleanst.livejournal.com\/151753.html?thread=1236681#t1236681\" title=\"ceruleanst: Act I Scene 2\">ceruleanst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.<\/p>\n<p>  J: And know&#8217;st thou what the French name cottage pie?<br \/>\n  V: Say they not cottage pie, in their own tongue?<br \/>\n  J: But nay, their tongues, for speech and taste alike<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Are strange to ours, with their own history:<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Gaul knoweth not a cottage from a house.<br \/>\n  V: What say they then, pray?<br \/>\n  J: Hachis Parmentier.<br \/>\n  V: Hachis Parmentier! What name they cream?<br \/>\n  J: Cream is but cream, only they say le cr\u00e8me.<br \/>\n  V: What do they name black pudding?<br \/>\n  J: I know not;<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I visited no inn it could be bought.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p>\n  J: My pardon; did I break thy concentration?<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Continue! Ah, but now thy tongue is still.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Allow me then to offer a response.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray.<br \/>\n  B: What?<br \/>\n  J: What country dost thou hail from?<br \/>\n  B: What?<br \/>\n  J: How passing strange, for I have traveled far,<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And never have I heard tell of this What.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;What language speak they in the land of What?<br \/>\n  B: What?<br \/>\n  J: The Queen&#8217;s own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?<br \/>\n  B: Aye!<br \/>\n  J: Then hearken to my words and answer them!<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Describe to me Marsellus Wallace!<br \/>\n  B: What?<br \/>\n  <em>JULES presses his knife to BRETT&#8217;s throat<\/em><br \/>\n  J: Speak &#8216;What&#8217; again! Thou cur, cry &#8216;What&#8217; again!<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I dare thee utter &#8216;What&#8217; again but once!<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I dare thee twice and spit upon thy name!<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, paint for me a portraiture in words,<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If thou hast any in thy head but &#8216;What&#8217;,<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Of Marsellus Wallace!<br \/>\n  B: He is dark.<br \/>\n  J: Aye, and what more?<br \/>\n  B: His head is shaven bald.<br \/>\n  J: Has he the semblance of a harlot?<br \/>\n  B: What?<br \/>\n  <em>JULES strikes and BRETT cries out<\/em><br \/>\n  J: Has he the semblance of a harlot?<br \/>\n  B: Nay!<br \/>\n  J: Then why didst thou attempt to bed him thus?<br \/>\n  B: I did not!<br \/>\n  J: Aye, thou didst! O, aye, thou didst!<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Thou hoped to rape him like a chattel whore,<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And sooth, Lord Wallace is displeased to bed<br \/>\n  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;With anyone but she to whom he wed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/04\/19\/shakespeares-pulp-fi.html\" title=\"Boing Boing: Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of pseudo-Shakespearean silliness, originally by ceruleanst&#8230;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,6,2671],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-humor","tag-pulp-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}