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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
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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
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Curse onne mie tardie woundes! brynge mee a stede!
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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2264: These tardie Tricks of yours will (on my life) 2265: One time, or other, breake some Gallowes back.
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