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  • Fighinolfi, and knowing her to be very jealous of her Husband, gave her to understand, that hee was greatly enamoured of his Wife, and had appointed to meete her privately in a Bathing house, on the next day following: where shee hoping to take him tardie with his close compacted Mistresse, found her selfe to be deceived by the said Ricciardo.

    The Decameron 2004

  • My Husband is comming uppe, and we shall be both taken tardie, step into this Chest, lye downe there and stirre not, till I have sent him forth againe, which shall be within a very short while.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Curse onne mie tardie woundes! brynge mee a stede!

    The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

  • 2264: These tardie Tricks of yours will (on my life) 2265: One time, or other, breake some Gallowes back.

    Henry IV, Part Two (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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