A servingman, proud in heart and mind, that curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of my mistress’ heart and did the act of darkness with her, swore as many oaths as I spake words and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust and waked to do it. Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramoured the Turk. False of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders’ books, and defy the foul fiend. Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind; says suum, mun, nonny. Dolphin my boy, boy, sessa! Let him trot by.

– William Shakespeare

King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4. Disguised as mad beggar Poor Tom, this is Edgar’s response to Lear’s question, "What hast thou been?" In a wildly fictitious account of his past life, Edgar speaks of committing catalogue of sins from pride to lust, greed, drinking excessively, oath-breaking, being false-hearted and untrustworthy. He also tells us that the "fiend" is after him, a reference to his scheming villain of a brother Edmund. Edgar’s mad speech is ironic, because in his real past life he was the exact opposite to how he portrays himself here – noble, honest and innocent (as described by brother Edmund in Act 1, Scene 2).