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Facts and Fancies for the Curious

by Charles C. Bombaugh

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Children

Capulet. Wife, we scarce thought us bless’d,
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.

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