{"id":9385,"date":"2026-04-29T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9385"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:36:18","slug":"a-midsummer-nights-dream-act-i-scene-i-11-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9385","title":{"rendered":"Titus Andronicus: Act V, Scene i; First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Titus Andronicus.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 5, Scene 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Aaron<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2240.\u00a0 I, that I had not done a thou<\/span>s<\/span>and more:<\/span><\/div>\n
2241.\u00a0 Euen now I cur<\/span>s<\/span>e the day, and yet I thinke<\/span><\/div>\n
2242.\u00a0 Few come within few compa<\/span>s<\/span>s<\/span><\/span>e of my cur<\/span>s<\/span>e,<\/span><\/div>\n
2243.\u00a0 Wherein I did not <\/span>s<\/span>ome Notorious ill,<\/span><\/div>\n
2244.\u00a0 As kill a man, or el<\/span>s<\/span>e deui<\/span>s<\/span>e his death,<\/span><\/div>\n
2245.\u00a0 Raui<\/span>s<\/span>h<\/span><\/span>\u00a0a Maid, or plot the way to do it,<\/span><\/div>\n
2246.\u00a0 Accus<\/span>e\u00a0s<\/span>ome Innocent, and fors<\/span>weare mys<\/span>elfe,<\/div>\n
2247.\u00a0 Set deadly Enmity betweene two Friends,<\/span><\/div>\n
2248.\u00a0 Make poore mens Cattell breake their neckes,<\/div>\n
2249.\u00a0 Set <\/span>fi<\/span>re on Barnes and Hay<\/span>s<\/span>tackes in the night,<\/span><\/div>\n
2250.\u00a0 And bid the Owners quench them with the teares:<\/span><\/div>\n
2251.\u00a0 Oft haue I dig’d vp dead men from their graues,<\/span><\/div>\n
2252.\u00a0 And s<\/span>et them vpright at their deere Friends doore,<\/div>\n
2253.\u00a0 Euen when their <\/span>s<\/span>orrowes almo<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>\u00a0was forgot,<\/span><\/div>\n
2254.\u00a0 And on their skinnes, as on the Barke of Trees,<\/div>\n
2255.\u00a0 Haue with my knife carued in Romaine Letters,<\/div>\n
2256.\u00a0 Let not your s<\/span>orrow die, though I am dead.<\/div>\n
2257.\u00a0 Tut, I haue done a thous<\/span>and dreadfull things<\/div>\n
2258.\u00a0 As willingly, as one would kill a Fly,<\/div>\n
2259.\u00a0 And nothing greeues me hartily indeede,<\/div>\n
2260.\u00a0 But that I cannot doe ten thou<\/span>s<\/span>and more.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Titus Andronicus.\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 up a Modern Version Click here to open up a Scanned Version 2240.\u00a0 I, that I had not done a thousand more: 2241.\u00a0 Euen now I curse the day, and yet<\/p>\n [...]<\/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-9385","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-2rn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9385","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=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9394,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9385\/revisions\/9394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}