The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! "By Jesu, a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good whore!" Why, is not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these perdona-mi’s, who stand so much on the new form, that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their bones, their bones!
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 4. Mercutio mocks pompous and pretentious people like Tybalt, who follow the latest fashions and styles. He summons a plague down on the Tybalts of the world, who speak with affected accents and like to use foreign phrases.