Rich. Oh, call me double Glo'ster, if you please,
As long as I, in your eyes, am the cheese.
Anne. A cheese! Why, then I cut you. (going)
Rich.I've the daring
To ask you to consider this cheese paring.
Anne. You are hump-backed.
Rich.Oh, hump-bug!
Anne.And knock'd knee'd.
Rich. A friend in-knee'd, ma'am, is a friend indeed.
In puns, and good puns too, this piece is particularly prolific. Thus, Richard's mother says of him that
He as a child took early to the bottle,
As all our family did, and my relations—
I can look back on many ginny-rations.
Yes, and my ancestors—they never fought
With greater spirit than at A-gin-court.
Buckingham says to Richard—