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For an account of insult-matches as a play form in traditional societies, see Johan Huizinga (1949), Homo Ludens, pp 86–91. Prince Hal and Falstaff are at it in Shakespeare’s (c.1597), Henry IV, Part 1: “’Sblood, you staveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat’s tongue, you bull’s pizzle, you stock-fish . . . you vile standing tuck!”, act II, scene 4.