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"BUSK. A piece of whalebone or ivory, formerly worn by women, to stiffen the fore part of their stays: 
hence the toast—Both ends of the busk."
Francis Grose, The Vulgar Tongue (1811), Summersdale, 2004, p. 51.

Isabela: Tell me, Lucky, is this worth dying for?

Isabela & Sofia believe that satire should be rough and obscure. We villains don't die that easily.

"She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells."

Friends: Bethany; Isabela.
Rivals: Anders; Aveline.

"Why are we clothed in glistering attires, If common bloods can hear, can feel,
Can sit as soft, lie as lascivious, Stut [strut] all as rich as the greatest potentate:—"
John Marston, What You Will (1607), Act V, Scene 1, l. 202-205 [Duke of Venice].

Rolling Stones feat. Lisa Fischer — Gimme Shelter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EizYwS1engw

"Divided the work will thus become brief."
[Divisum sic breve fiet opus.]
Martial, Epigrams, Book IV, 83.

"A man, a man, a kingdom for a man!"
John Marston, The Scourge of Villainy, Book III, Satire VII. A Cynic Satire, 1598 [spirit scorns Detraction’s spite.]

Grateful Dead Bob Weir — Jack Straw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9QZVZ3kC4

"I fast twice in the week, I give tithes."
Luke 18:12, King James Version (KJV).

"William Walworth (Mayor in 1370), has become historically famous, and is styled by Stow "the glory of their Company." 
There is a statue of him on the staircase of Fishmongers’ Hall, in which he is represented in the act of striking Wat Tyler 
with the dagger; and on the pedestal is the following inscription .—
"Brave Walworth, knight, Lord Maior, yt slew Rebellious Tyler in his alarmes,
The king therefore did give in lieu The dagger to the Citye’s arms.
In the fourth year of Richard II., Anno Domini 1381."
On this point Stow had another fling at the "ignorance of antiquity " which the worshipful Company displayed. 
He disproved the common notion that the dagger was added to the City arms in consequence of Walworth’s affair 
with Tyler. They also represented Walworth as having slain Jack Straw, and it appears that on Walworth’s monument 
in St. Michael’s Church, in Crooked Lane, the error was perpetuated."
Charles Knight, London, Volume 4, Chapter LXXXVIII. Billingsgate, 1843, p. 197.

"You'll be the first to know when I kill you, I promise." 
Red Dead Redemption [John Marston to Abraham Reyes].