In Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost, Costard, the witty clown who drives the sub-plot of the play, comments on the vocabulary of Don Adriano de Armado and schoolmaster Holofernes:
Costard: O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon. (5.1.38-42)
It's "controversial" because it is often suggested that Sir Frank Bacon shoved into the play's script to send a secret message to someone...
