• A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet 1564-1616
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. standers-by
2. gentleman
3. borrowed
4. pleasure
5. disposed
6. curtail

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A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha? by : William Shakespeare

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