Quotation by Shakespeare

Two may keep counsel when the third's away.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Aaron, in Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc. 2, l. 144.

He kills the nurse he is speaking to so that she cannot betray him; she is the "third" who knows about the birth of his daughter; proverbial.
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