[Pickwick is angry at Mrs. Bardell's lawyers over her breach of promise suit, and they are goading him]
Dodson: Perhaps you'd like to call us swindlers, sir. Pray do so if you feel disposed, ah pray do, sir.
Samuel Pickwick: I do. You ARE swindlers.
Dodson: Very good. You'd better call us thieves, sir. Perhaps you'd like to asault one of us.
Fogg: Pray do so, if you would. We would make not the slightest resistance.
Sam Weller: [realizes what's happening and steps in to save Mr. Pickwick] You just come away, sir. Battledore and shuttlecock's a *wery* good game... provided you ain't the shuttlecock and two lawyers ain't the battledores.


--Harry Fowler (as ) in The Pickwick Papers