That God had sent us but this only child;
But now I see this one is one too much.
“Romeo and Juliet,” iii, 5.
Leonato. Griev’d I, I had but one?
Chid I for that at nature’s frugal frame?
Oh! one too much by thee.
“Much Ado About Nothing,” iv, 1.
Calumny.
Duke. No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure scape; back-wounding calumny