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Censure: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

We, in the world's wide mouth— H. IV. PT. 1. i. 3.

Live scandaliz'd, and foully spoken of. Why, who cries out on pride, That can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, Till that the weary very means do ebb? What woman in the city do I name, When that I say, The city woman bears The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders ? Who can come in and say that I mean her, When such a one as she, such is her neighbour ? Or what is he of basest function, That says his bravery is not on my cost, (Thinking that I mean him,) but therein suits His folly to the mettle of my speech? There, then; How, what then? Let me see wherein My tongue hath wrong'd him; if it do him right, Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free, Why then, my taxing like a wild-goose flies,— A. Y. ii. 7

Unclaim'd of any man.