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She couldn’t help but wonder how Mr. Marsden had retold last night’s encounter.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

The classical story of Lucretia’s ravishment and suicide is briefly recorded in Ovid’s ‘Fasti,’ but Chaucer had retold it in his ‘Legend of Good Women,’ and Shakespeare must have read it there. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir