I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us. But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will roar you an ‘t were any nightingale.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 2. In consideration of the ladies’ sensitivities, Bottom gives an assurance that he will temper his roar when playing the part of the lion. Using a simile, promises to make it as gentle as a "sucking dove" – this is most likely a malapropism for "suckling lamb." Bottom also uses verbal irony when he says he will "aggravate my voice." He of course means the opposite, that he will calm his voice. Here "aggravate" is a malapropism for "moderate."