Volpone, in a desperate attempt to undo his own overreaching, to unprovoke his lawyer Voltore — When I provoked him, then I lost myself [5.11.22] — must falsify the brief and uncharacteristically true pleading of Voltore on the grounds he is possessed:

I didn’t bring him here. If you wouldn’t have gone out, I wouldn’t have either. I’d have thrown him out right away. He wouldn’t’ve made it through the door.

She opened her heart / To a tearaway (sheepskin tearaway) / Was covered with scars / And full of heroin

He beat me almost every time with the girl with the visible underboobs, although I got him once or twice with the guy wielding a sword bigger than his leg.