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Gotta Read My Shakespeare

Can’t make a comic about the English language and not include some William Shakespeare. Gotta have it.

 

rat-catcher, 1. a. One whose business it is to catch rats. Also transf. and fig.

 
Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walke?
— William Shakespeare, 'Romeo and Juliet' (1597)