{"id":9384,"date":"2026-04-29T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9384"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:36:37","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9384","title":{"rendered":"Titus Andronicus: Act V, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Titus Androncus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 5, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aaron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(This text is featured in our <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?p=9106\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Jesse Berger and McKinley Belcher III<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Click here to open a <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=6012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scanned version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to open up <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Folio version<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">126 Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">127 Even now I curse the day\u2014and yet, I think,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">128 Few come within the compass of my curse\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">129 Wherein I did not some notorious ill,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">130 As kill a man, or else devise his death;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">131 Ravish a maid or plot the way to do it;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">132 Accuse some innocent and forswear myself;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">133 Set deadly enmity between two friends;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">134 Make poor men\u2019s cattle break their necks;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">135 Set fire on barns and haystalks in the night,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">136 And bid the owners quench them with their tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">137 Oft have I digged up dead men from their graves<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">138 And set them upright at their dear friends\u2019 door,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">139 Even when their sorrows almost was forgot,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">140 And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">141 Have with my knife carv\u00e8d in Roman letters<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">142 \u201cLet not your sorrow die, though I am dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">143 But I have done a thousand dreadful things<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">144 As willingly as one would kill a fly,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">145 And nothing grieves me heartily indeed<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">146 But that I cannot do ten thousand more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titus Androncus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 5, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aaron (This text is featured in our interview with Jesse Berger and McKinley Belcher III) Click here to open a scanned version. Click here to open up First Folio version 126 Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. 127 Even now I curse the day\u2014and yet, I think,<\/p>\n <a href='https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9384' class='excerpt-more-append'>[...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9384","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2rm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9395,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9384\/revisions\/9395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}