Note 821 — FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES; OR, THE ANT AND THE NIGHTINGALE.
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action of one arm, like old Titus Andronicus] See the tragedy so called, which, though now printed among the works of Shakespeare, was assuredly written by some other dramatist,—probably, by Marlowe. In act iii. sc. 1, Aaron cuts off the hand of Titus; and in act v. sc. 2, the latter says,
“How can I grace my talk,
Wanting a hand to give it action?”