 Now the president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, Ed Martin. Because he was so prolific and wrote so much, Shakespeare can be quoted like Ben Franklin for any topic and with cleverness. In Act 4, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, there is a truly bad dude, the gangster hitman Dick the Butcher. Dick is the right-hand man to Cade, an insurrectionist who's trying to take down the king.