“Then he will talk—good gods! how he will talk!”

—  Nathaniel Lee , The Rival Queens

Act i., Sc. 3. "It would talk,— Lord! how it talked!", Beaumont and Fletcher, Scornful Lady (c. 1613; printed 1616), Act v., Sc. 1.
The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)

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