If ever you want to wind up an Irishman like me, dress up in full riding gear and refer to yourself and you chums as "gentry". The following poem, while not Shakespeare, retells a story from Tyrellspass in Westmeath beside me where one poor tourist made the mistake...

Can you tell me, sir, a man passing did say
To a citizen of Ireland at his gate one day
When the local hunt were at their play
He enquired did the man see the "Gentry" go this way...