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The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now't is not to be found.

      — Love's Labour's Lost, Act I Scene 2

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Titus Andronicus
[II, 3]

Tamora

795

Saucy controller of our private steps!
Had I the power that some say Dian had,
Thy temples should be planted presently
With horns, as was Actaeon's; and the hounds
Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,
Unmannerly intruder as thou art!

2

Titus Andronicus
[IV, 2]

Aaron

1840

O Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy:
Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours,
A long-tongued babbling gossip? no, lords, no:
And now be it known to you my full intent.
Not far, one Muli lives, my countryman;
His wife but yesternight was brought to bed;
His child is like to her, fair as you are:
Go pack with him, and give the mother gold,
And tell them both the circumstance of all;
And how by this their child shall be advanced,
And be received for the emperor's heir,
And substituted in the place of mine,
To calm this tempest whirling in the court;
And let the emperor dandle him for his own.
Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic,
[Pointing to the nurse]
And you must needs bestow her funeral;
The fields are near, and you are gallant grooms:
This done, see that you take no longer days,
But send the midwife presently to me.
The midwife and the nurse well made away,
Then let the ladies tattle what they please.

3

Titus Andronicus
[IV, 4]

Saturninus

2057

Go, take him away, and hang him presently.

4

Titus Andronicus
[V, 1]

Lucius

2280

Bring down the devil; for he must not die
So sweet a death as hanging presently.

5

Titus Andronicus
[V, 3]

Saturninus

2593

Go fetch them hither to us presently.

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