Example of flyting:
Maggoty mutton, gorged glutton, scurrilous certain heir to Hillhouse,
Rank beggar, oyster-dredger, dismal debtor on the lawn,
Lily-livered,
soul-shivered, cheap as slivers in the millhouse,
Bard baiter, thief of nature, false
traitor,
devil's spawn.
- Dunbar about Kennedy