SOME OF _ SHAKESPEARE’S ANIMALS ao By J. SANFORD SALTUS CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SOME OF SHAKESPEARE’S ANIMALS By J. SANFORD SALTUS “T never kill’d a mouse, nor hurt a fly; I trod upon a worm against my will.” Marina, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Act IV. Scene I. PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR SELLING AGENTS: BRENTANO’S, 5TH AVENUE AND 27TH STREET NEw York Copyricur, 1918, By J. SANFORD SALTUS FOREWORD THIs is not a book, only a memorandum of one to be written some day, about the animals Shake- speare knew, understood, and loved—for that he loved them, as he did all nature, is shown in every play or poem he ever wrote. There is not a play, and only very few acts, in which they are not men- tioned. oe ° Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, Pard or boar with bristled hair’’ which rollick through ‘“Midsummer-Night’s Dream” fairie frolic, all parts of the moonshine revel, or be it the “Night wandering weasel’s shriek” in the ‘‘Rape of Lucrece.” Who can forget that shout of Richard III: “A horse! a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” or Juliet’s whisper : “Tt was the Nightingale.” 3 4 Foreword These are the Poet’s lines. You and I, dear reader—even if we are not poets, but only lovers of animals—are going to take a few strolls to- gether. That is all. And as we— “Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,” often may we catch the song of “The thrush and the jay.” J. SANFoRD SALTUS. October 23, 1918. CONTENTS FOREWORD . THe TEMPEST. THE Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA . THe Merry WivEs oF WINDSOR Measure For MEasure . THE Comepy OF Errors . Mucu Apo Azsout NortrHING Love’s Lagour Lost . MipsuMMeEr-NIGHT’s Dream THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. As You Like It . THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Auw’s WELL THaT ENps WELL . TWELFTH NiGHT on WuatT You WILL. ‘THE WINTER’s TALE. Kine Joun. Kino RicHARD THE SECOND . Kinc Henry [V—Part ONE . Kinc Henry IV—Part Two . Kine Henry V Kinc Henry VI—Part OnE Kinc Henry VI—Part Two . Kinc Henry VI—Partr THREE. Kino Ricuarp IIT Kine Henry VIII PAGE 12 14 16 17 18 19 22 27 29 31 33 34 35 36 38. 40 42 43 45 46 48 49 51 6 Contents TROILUS AND CRESSIDA CoRIOLANUS Titus ANDRONICUS ROMEO AND JULIET TIMoNn oF ATHENS Juuius C#sar. MacsBeETH . . . . HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK . Kinc Lear. OTHELLO ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA . CYMBELINE. PERICLES PorMs:—VENUS AND ADONIS THE Rape oF LUCRECE SONNETS A Lover’s CoMPLAINT . 3 SONNETS TO SuNpDRY Notes or Music . THE PH:NIX AND THE TURTLE THRENOS . . . THE PassioNATE PILGRIM . . . PAGE 52 54 55 57 60 61 62 65 67 69 70 72 73 74 78 78 78 79 79 79 SOME OF SHAKESPEARE’S ANIMALS THE TEMPEST Dogs, Rats, Wolves, Bears, Ravens, Urchins, Bees, Toads, Beetles, Bats, Watch-dogs, Chanticleer, Coral, Muscles, Cock, Cockerel, Bulls, Lions, Fish, Cat, Apes, Hedgehogs, Adders, Neats, Ewe, Duck, Goose, Jays, Marmozet, Owls, Monkey, Steeds, Scamels, Mole, Horse, Colts, Ass. CALIBAN All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! —Act I. Se. I. PROSPERO A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg’d Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it. —Act I. Se. II. PROSPERO What torment I did find thee in: thy groans Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts Of ever-angry bears. —Act I. Sc. II. 8 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals CALIBAN As wicked dew as e’er my mother brush’d With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye And blister you all o’er! —Act I. Sc. II. PROSPERO For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins Shall forth at vast of night, that they may work All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch’d As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made them. —Act [ Se. IL ARIEL Hark, hark! Bow, wow, The watch dogs bark: Bow, wow. Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting Chanticleer, Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.”’ —Act I. Se. IL. ARIEL Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made: —Acr I. Sc. II. The Tempest 9 PROSPERO Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be The fresh-brook muscles. —Act I. Se. II. ANTONIO Which of them, he, or Adrian, for a good Wager, first begins to crow? Aer [. Se. I. SEBASTIAN The old cock. ANTONIO The cockerel. —Act II. Sc. I. ALONSO What strange fish. —Act II. Se. I. ANTONIO They’ll take suggestion as the cat laps milk. —Acr If Se, 1 SEBASTIAN Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing Like bulls, or rather lions; —ActT II. Se. I. 10 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals STEPHANO . He’s a present for any Emperor that ever trod on neat’s-leather. —Act I. Se. Il. CALIBAN For every trifle are they set upon me: Sometimes like apes, that mow and chatter at me, And after, bite me; then like hedge-hogs, which Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way and mount Their pricks at my foot-fall: sometimes am I All wounds with adders, who, with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness. —Act II. Sc. I. STEPHANO Though thou canst swim like a duck, Thou art made like a goose. —Act II. Sc. I. Show thee a jay’s nest and instruct thee how To snare a nimble marmozet. * * * * * * Pll get thee Young scamels, from the rocks. —Act II. Sc. II. CALIBAN . thou jesting monkey. Act III. Se. II. GONZALO Dew-lapped like bulls. —Act III. Sc. III. The Tempest II ARIEL . . . Then I beat my tabor At which, like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears, . so I charm’d their ears That, calf-like, they my lowing followed. —ActT IV. Sc. I. CALIBAN Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot-fall: —Actr IV. Sc. I. CALIBAN What a thrice-double ass was I. —Act V. Sc. I. ARIEL Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip’s bell I lie: There I crouch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly. —Actr V. Sc. I. THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Dog, Sheep, Lions, Spaniel, Bees, Lamb, Cock, Lions, Robin-redbreast, Cat, Cur, Horse, Geese, Fox, Lambs. SPEED The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd. —Act I. Sc. I. SPEED To relish a love-song like a robin-redbreast. —Act II. Sc. I. LAUNCE I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives; my mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel- hearted cur shed one tear. —Act II. Sc. II. LAUNCE But a team of horse shall not pluck that from me. —Act III. Sc. I. 12 The Two Gentlemen of Verona 13 PROTEUS The least whereof would quell a lover’s hope, Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love. —Act IV. Sc. Il. JULIA A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs. —Act IV. Sc. IV. VALENTINE And to the nightingale’s complaining notes, Tune my distresses and record my woes. —ActT V. Sc. IV. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Greyhound, Dog, Dove, Rats, Bears, Cat-a-moun- tain, Ass, Buck, Hawk, Turtles, Jays, Pullet, Pup- pies, Hog, Polecats, Horses, Swan, Stag, Glow- worms, Goat, Deer. SLENDER How does your fallow greyhound, Sir? SHALLOW Tis a good dog. —Act I. Sc. 1. PISTOL His dove will prove. —Act I. Sc. III. PISTOL Take heed; ere summer comes or cuckoo birds do sing. —Act II. Se. I. PISTOL Why, then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. —Act II. Sc. I. FALSTAFF I will not lend thee a penny. —ActT II. Sc. II. 14 The Merry Wives of Windsor 15 MISTRESS FORD We'll teach him to know turtles from jays. —Act III. Se. Il. FALSTAFF A swan for the love of Leda. —Act V. Sc. V. EVANS And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be. —Act V. Sc. V. FALSTAFF I am here a Windsor stag. —Act V. Sc. V. FALSTAFF When night dogs run all sorts of deer are chased. —Act V. Sc. V. MEASURE FOR MEASURE Lion, Ape, Beetle, Birds, Horse, Steeds. ISABELLA And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. —Act III. Se. I. 16 THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Phenix, Beast, Fishes, Fowls, Gnats, Buck, Cree, Dog, Wolf, Peacock, Aves ADRIANA There’s none but asses will be bridled so. ANCIANA Why, headstrong liberty is lash’d with woe. There's nothing situate under heaven’s eye, But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky: The beasts, the fishes, and the wingéd fowls, Are their males’ subjects and at their controls: Men more divine, the masters of all these, Lords of the wide world, and wild wat’ ry seas, Indued with intellectual sense and souls, Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, Are masters to their females and their lords: Then, let your will attend on their accords. —Act II. Se. I. ANTIPHOULUS When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. —Act II. Sc. II. DROMIO She had transform’d me to a curtail dog and made me turn i’ the wheel. —Act III. Sc. II. 17 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Cat, Lamb, Bulls, Lion, Crow, Worm, Ewe, Horse, Ass, Apes, Greyhound, Cow, Calf, Sheep. MESSENGER He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion. — * * * As there is no firm reason to be render’d, Why he cannot abide a gaping pig; Why he, a harmless necessary cat. —Act IV. Sc. I. AS YOU LIKE IT Horses, Dog, Pigeon, Ass, Dog-apes, Wild-goose, Sheep, Rams, Ewes, Cat, Stag, Hart, Hind, Goats, Falcon, Ox, Snail, Worm, Fly, Hen, Parrot, Ape, Monkey, Hyen, Lion, Snake, Swans, Lioness, Snake, Boar. JACQUES And then the whining school-boy with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. —Act II. Se. VII. ROSALIND Ay, of a snail: for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head. —Act IV. Sc. I. ROSALIND I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock- pigeon over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot against rain; more new-fangled than an ape; more giddy in my desires than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana in the fountain, and I will do that when you are dis- posed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen and that when thou art inclined to sleep. —Act IV. Sc. I. 29 30 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals Song What shall he have that kill’d the deer? His leather skin and horns to wear. —Act IV. Sc. II. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Dog, Hound, Brach, Cur, Horse, Lark, Stag, Roe, Hawkes, Wild-cat, Lions, Boar, Nightingale, Buz- zard, Turtle, Wasp, Lamb, Sheep, Dove, Beetle, Neats, Adder, Eel, Ass, Steeds, Bugs, Apes, Jay, Lark, Greyhound. LORD Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds. —IntTropuction. Sc. I. LORD Or wilt thou ride? thy horses shall be trapp’d, Their harness studded all with gold and pearl. Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark: or wilt thou hunt? Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them, And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. —IntropuctTion. Sc. II. FIRST SERVANT Say, thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe. —Intropuction. Sc. II. GREMIO But will you woo this wild-cat ? —Act I. Sc. II. 31 32 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals PETRUCHIO Why came I hither but to that intent? Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puff’d up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven’s artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud ’larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets’ clang? And do you tell me of a woman’s tongue? That gives not half so great a blow to the ear As will a chestnut in a farmer’s fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. —Act I. Sc. Il. PETRUCHIO What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye? —ActT IV. Sc. III. ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Deer, Cuckoo, Fox, Hen, Horse, Whale, Crow, Cat, Musk-cat, Carp. CLOWN Your cuckoo sings by kind. —Act I. Sc. III. LAFEU Here is a pur of fortune’s, Sir, or of fortune’s cat—but not a musk-cat— —ActT V. Sc. II. 33 TWELFTH NIGHT OR WHAT YOU WILL Hare, Hart, Hounds, Dolphin, Night-owl, Dog, Horse, Beagle, Turkey-cock, Wood-cock, Lion, Wolf, Elephant (An Inn), Dove, Ass, Worm, Gull, Lamb, Raven. DUKE That instant was I turn’d into a hart; And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds. —ActT I. Sc. I. VIOLA . She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm 1’ the bud Feed on her damask cheek. —Act II. Sc. IV. DUKE I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, To spite a raven’s heart within a dove. —ActT V. Sc. IL. 34 THE WINTER’S TALE Lambs, Neat, Steer, Heifer, Calf, Wasps, Kites, Jay, Raven, Wolf, Bears, Crow, Lark, Thrush, Bull, Ram, Swallow, Adders, Toads, Ewes, Flies, Turtle, Sow. POLIXENES We were as twinn’d lambs that did frisk i’ the sun, And bleat the one at the other: what we chang’d Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, no nor dream’d That any did. “—Act I. Sc. IL. AUTOLYCUS The lark, that tirra-lirra chants With, heigh! With heigh! the thrush And the jay. * * * * * * If tinkers may have leave to live, ' And bear the sow-skin budget, Then my account I well may give And in the stocks avouch it. —Act IV. Sc. II. PERDITA . Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty: —ActT IV. Sc. III. 35 KING JOHN Lion, Eel, Sparrow, Ass, Horse, Puppie-dogs, Lamb, Dragon, Tiger, Eagle, Swine, Crow. LEWIS Before Angiers well met, brave Austria.— Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood, Richard, that robb’d the lion of his heart And fought the holy wars in Palestine. —Act II. Sc. I. CHATILLON Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, With ladies’ faces and fierce dragons’ spleens. —Act II. Se. I. BASTARD Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard. —ActT II. Sc. I. KING PHILIP Amen, Amen! Mount chevaliers, to arms! —Act II. Sc. I. BASTARD St. George, that swing’d the dragon and e’er since Sits on his horseback at mine hostess’ door, 36 King John a7 . Teach us some fence! Sirrah, Were I at home, At your den, sirrah (To Austria) with your lioness, I'd set an ox-head to your lion’s hide, And make a monster of you. —Act II. Sc. I. DUKE OF AUSTRIA Peace! no more. —Act II. Se. I. BASTARD O! tremble for you hear the lions roar. ’ —Acr II. Sc. I. KING RICHARD THE SECOND Falcon, Eagle, Oyster, Colts, Cats, Lamb, Toad, Worms, Viper, Snakes, Caterpillar, Lions, Dog, Horse, Ass, Spiders, Adder, Dogs. BOLINGBROKE As confident as is the falcon’s flight, Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight. —ActT I. Sc. III. KING RICHARD But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom, And heavy-gated toads lie in their way, Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet Which with usurping steps do trample thee, Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies; And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower, Guard it I pray thee, with a lurking adder. —Act III. Sc. II. KING RICHARD O villains, vipers damn’d without redemption, Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man! Snakes in my heart-blood warm’d, that sting my heart! —Act III. Se. II. 38 King Richard the Second 39 KING RICHARD Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. —Act III. Sc. I. QUEEN The lion, dying, thrusteth forth his paw. And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage. —ActT V. Sc. I. KING HENRY IV—PART ONE Horse, Wasp, Fleas, Turkeys, Ape, Ox, Capon, Anchovies, Kitten, Dragon, Griffin, Raven, Lion, Cat, Cuckoo, Dog, Goats, Bulls, Weasel, Nag, Fox, Sparrow, Kine, Ant, Moldwarp, Eagles. PETO Item A capon 2s. 6d. Item Sauce 4d. Item Sack, two gallons 5s. 8d. Item Anchovies and sack after supper 2s. 6d. Item Bread 6d. —Act II. Sc. IV. HOTSPUR I cannot choose: sometimes he angers me, With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies; And of a dragon, and a finless fish, A clip-wing’d griffin and a moulten raven, A couching lion and a ramping cat, And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith. —Act III. Sc. I. VERNON All furnish’d, all in arms, All plum’d like estridges that wing the wind, 40 King Henry [V—Part One ‘4I Baited like eagles having lately bath’d; Glittering in golden coats, like images, As full of spirit as the month of May, And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls, I saw young Harry, with his beaver on. —ActT IV. Sc. I. KING HENRY IV—PART TWO Horse, Wolf, Bear, Prawns, Heifers, Bull, Dog, Baboon, Night-flies, Dove, Beefs, Dace, Pike, Wild-dog, Wild-geese, Fox, Malt-worm, Mouse, Bees, Parrot. MISTRESS QUICKLY Telling us she had a good dish of prawns. —ActT II. Sc. I. FALSTAFF He a good wit? hang him, baboon! His wit is thick as Tewksbury mustard: there is no more conceit in him, than is in a mallet. —Act II. Sc. IV. KING HENRY > a And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber. —Act III. Se. I. FALSTAFF . Thou wilt be as valiant As the wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. —Act III. Se. I. 42 KING HENRY V Cat, Dog, Viper, Lark, Palfrey, Horse, Wolves, Cocks, Peacock, Bear, Flies, Lion, Horse-leeches, Fox, Greyhounds, Kite, Crow, Tiger, Sow, Mouse, Eagle, Weasel, Duck, Lamb. WESTMORELAND But there’s a saying very old and true: If that you will France win, Then with Scotland first begin; For once the eagle England being in prey, To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs, Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, To spoil and havoc more than she can eat. —dAct I. Se. II. PISTOL For oaths are straws, men’s faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck: Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor, Go, clear thy crystals, yoke-fellows in arms, Let us to France! like horse-leeches, my boys, To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck. —Act II. Se. III. 43 44 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals KING HENRY In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger. * * * * * * I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot: Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge, Cry “God for Harry! England! and Saint George!” —Act III. Sc. I. DUKE OF ORLEANS Foolish curs! that run winking into the mouth Of a Russian bear, and have their heads crushed like rotten apples: You may as well say,—that’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. —Act III. Sc. VII. CHORUS The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll, And the third hour of drowsy morning name. —Act IV. KING HENRY VI—PART ONE Dragon, Mules, Mice, Lions, Lambs, Dove, Eagle, Geese, Wolf, Sheep, Dolphin, Dog-fish, Horse, Bee, Dog, Whelp, Oxen, Leopard, Turtle-doves, Shrimp, Worm, Peacock, Deer, Curs, Hounds, Stags, Vulture, Swan, Sygnetts. JOAN OF ARC Lo! Whilst I waited on my tender lambs. —Act I. Sc. I. JOAN OF ARC Let frantick Talbot triumph for a while, and like a peacock sweep along. —Act III. Se. III. 45 KING HENRY VI—PART TWO Puttock, Heifer, Lizard, Serpent, Screech-owl, Ban-dog, Falcon, Hawkes, Lamb, Dog, Eagle, Kite, Chicken, Fox, Spider, Raven, Basilisk, Scor- pion, Bees, Heifer, Partridge, Snake, Spider, Man- drakes (?). KING HENRY But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, men and birds are fain of climbing high. SUFFOLK No marvel, and it like your majesty, My Lord Protector’s hawks do tower so well; They know their master loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon’s pitch. —Act II. Se. I. GLOUCESTER The ancient proverb will be well affected— “A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.” —Act III. Se. I. QUEEN MARGARET Seek not a scorpion’s nest. —ActT III. Sc. II. 46 King Henry VI—Part Two 47 WARWICK Who finds the heifer dead, and bleeding fresh, And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect ‘twas he that made the slaughter? Who finds the partridge in the puttock’s nest But may imagine how the bird was dead, Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak? Even so suspicious is this tragedy. —ActT III. Se. I. KING HENRY VI—PART THREE Lamb, Wolves, Eagle, Doves, Falcon, W ood-cock, Horse, Pies, Tiger, Lion, Bear, Dog, Night-owl, Toad, Lizards, Steers, Ewes, Sheep, Bull, Flies, Screech-owl, Hare, Deer, Crow, Raven. YORK But you are more inhuman, . . . than tigers of Hyrcania. —Act I. Sc. IV. KING HENRY And orphans for their parents’ timeless death, Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born, The ow! shriek’d at thy birth, an evil sign, The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time; Dogs howl’d, and hideous tempest shook down trees; The raven rook’d her on the chimney’s top, And chattering pies in discord sung. —Act V. Sc. VI. 48 KING RICHARD III Dog, Kites, Eagles, Buzzards, Post-horse, Adders, Spiders, Toad, Hedge-hog, Worms, Hog, Fishes, Ape, Boar, Lambs, Owls, Swine, Lark, Dragons, Wrens. GLOUCESTER Dogs bark at me, as I halt by them. —Act I. Sc. I. HASTINGS More pity that eagles should be mew’d, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. —Act I. Sc. I. LADY ANNE More direful hap betide that hated wretch, * * * * * * Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads. —ActT I. Sc. II. GLOUCESTER I cannot tell;—the world is grown so bad That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch! —Act I. Sc. III. 49 50 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals QUEEN MARGARET . Stay dog, for thou shalt hear me, * * * * * * Thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog! * * * * * * The day will come that thou shalt wish for me To help thee curse this poisnous bunch-back’d toad. —Act I. Sc. III. KING RICHARD Out on ye owls! Nothing but songs of death? —ActT IV. Sc. IV. KING RICHARD A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse! —ActT V. Sc. IV. KING HENRY VIII Horse, Spider, Fox, Fishes, Rams, Wild-horses, W olf. NORFOLK . . Anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow’d his way, Self-mettle tires him. —ActT I. Sc. I. BUCKINGHAM . This holy fox, Or wolf, or both,—for he is equal ravenous. —Act I. Sc. I. KING HENRY As rav’nous fishes, do a vessel follow. —Act I. Sc. II. 51 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Lion, Bear, Elephant, Chickens, Tiger, Wolf, Dog, Sparrows, Owl, Draught-oxen, Fly, Spider, Buck, Doe, Vipers, Falcon, Ducks, Butterflies, Horse, Sheep, Ass, Lambs, Ox, Mule, Cat, Fitchew, Lizard, Puttock, Herring, Screech-owl, Humble- bee, Turtle. ALEXANDER This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts Of their particular additions: he is as valiant As the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant. —ActT I. Sc. I. ULYSSES The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; His legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. —Acrt II. Sc. II. PANDARUS Is love a generation of vipers! —Act III. Sc. I. TROILUS As sun to day, as turtle to her mate. —Act III. Sc. Il. 52 Troilus and Cressida 83 ACHILLES . for men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. —Act III. Se. III. THERSITES And the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, His brother, the bull, _ i re = To an ass, were nothing, he is both ass and ox. * * * * * * To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring with- out a roe, I would not care; but to be Mene- laus! —ActT V. Sc. I. PANDARUS Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing, Till he hath lost his honey and his sting. —Act V. Sc. XI. CORIOLANUS Dog, Rats, Lion, Horse, Geese, Grey-hound, Cat, Steed, Lamb, Minnow, Goat, Crows, Kites, Butter- flies, Osprey, Doves, Nat, Apes, Ass, Mouse, Daws, Dragon, Grub. MARCIUS . . they were an-hungry; sigh’d forth proverbs: That hunger broke stone walls; that dogs must eat. —Act I. Se. I. CORIOLANUS Hear you this Triton of the minnows! —Act III. Se. I. CORIOLANUS I the city of kites and crows. THIRD SERVANT I’ the city of kites and crows ?— What an ass it is! Then thou dwellest with daws too? —Act IV. Sc. V. MENENIUS There is differency between a grub and a butter- fly; yet your butterfly was a grub. This Mar- cius is grown from man to dragon: he has wings; he’s more than a creeping thing. —Act V. Sc. IV. 54 TITUS ANDRONICUS Doe, Dogs, Panther, Hound, Horse, Swallows, A dder, Stag, Steed, Raven, Snake, Toads, Serpents, Tiger, Birds, Whelps, Fly, Bear-whelp, Tadpole, Swan, Boar, Mountain-lion, Goat, Rams, Pigeons, Gnats, Bull, Cow, Calf, Owl, Urchins, Eagle. MARCUS . I have dogs, my lord, Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase, And climb the highest promontory top. TITUS And I have horse will follow where the game Makes way, and run like swallows o’er the plain. DEMETRIUS (Aside) Chiron, we hunt not with horse nor hound, But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground. —Act II. Sc. II. TAMORA A barren detested vale you see, it is; The trees though summer, yet forlorn and lean, O’ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe; Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds Unless the nightly owl, or fatal raven: 55 56 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals And when they show’d me this abhorred pit, They told me, here, at dead time of the night, A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes, Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins, Would make such fearful and confused cries, As any mortal body hearing it Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly. —Act II. Sc. III. LAVINIA Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. —Act II. Sc. III. TITUS That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers? —Act III. Sc. I. TAMORA Is the sun dimm’d, that gnats do fly in it? The eagle suffers little birds to sing. —Act IV. Sc. IV. ROMEO AND JULIET Dog, Cockerel, Dove, Crow, Cricket, Grasshop- pers, Gnat, Worm, Squirrel, Grub, Horses, Goose, Toad, Cats, Rat, Mouse, Cockatrice, Nightingale, Lark, Mandrakes (?) Tortoise, Tigers, Spider, Hare, Lark, Alligator. NURSE Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall. —Act I. Sc. III. MERCUTIO . and she comes * * * * * * Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces of the smallest spider’s web; The collars, of the moonshine’s watery beams; Her whip of cricket’s bone; the lash of film; Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm, * * * * * * Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies’ coach-makers. —Act I. Sc. IV. JULIET And therefore do nimble-pinion’d doves draw love. —Act II. Sc. V. 57 58 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals JULIET Come night! Come, Romeo! come, thou day in night, For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night, Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back. —Act III. Se. II. ROMEO Where Juliet lives: and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look at her. —Act III. Sc. II. JULIET It was the nightingale, and not the lark. ROMEO It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale. —Act III. Se. V. JULIET And shrieks like mandrakes’ torn out of the earth. —Act IV. Sc. III. ROMEO And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, An alligator stuff’d and other skins Of ill-shaped fishes ; —Act V. Sc. I. Romeo and Juliet 59 ROMEO More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. —Act V. Sc. III. ROMEO : . here will I remain With worms that are thy chambermaids. —Act V. Sc. III. TIMON OF ATHENS Eagle, Dog, Baboon, Monkey, Chickens, Wolf, Bears, Toad, Newt, Adder, Worm, Lion, Fox, Lamb, Leopard, Unicorn, Horse, Ass, Dragon. TIMON Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is pufi’d, Engenders the black toad, and adder blue, The gilded newt and eyeless, venom’d worm. * * * * * * Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves and bears. —Act IV. Sc. III. TIMON If thou were the lion, the fox would beguile thee, If thou were the lamb, the fox would eat thee. —Act IV. Sc. III. 60 JULIUS CAESAR Wolf, Sheep, Lion, Serpents, Hounds, Unicorns, Hinds, Elephants, Bears, Hart, Deer, Horse, Lamb, Apes, Eagles. CASSIUS And why should Cesar be a tyrant then? Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf, But that he sees the Romans are but sheep; He were no lion were not Romans hinds. —Actr I. Se. III. DECIUS I can o’ersway him: for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betray’d with trees, And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers. —Act Il. Se. I. CASSIUS Two mighty eagles fell. —Actr V. Sc. I. 61 MACBETH Lion, Bat, Cricket, Owl, Horse, Hounds, Grey- hounds, Spaniels, Mongrels, Dogs, Beetles, Adders, Blind Worm, Dragon, Lizard, Wolf, Shark, Goat, Tiger, Baboon, Monkey, Lamb, Sparrows, Cat, Rat, Hare, Eagle, Cock, Serpent, Rhinoceros, Bear, Hedge-pig, Toad, Frog, Ass, Eagles, Newt. FIRST WITCH But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And like a rat, without a tail. —Act I. Sc. III. LADY MACBETH I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. —Act II. Sc. I. MACBETH . Ere the bat hath flown His cloister’d flight, ere, to black Hecate’s sum- mons, The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note. —Act III. Sc. I. MACBETH Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm’d rhinoceros, or Hyrcan tiger. —Acrt III. Sc. IV. 62 Macbeth 63 FIRST WITCH Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. SECOND WITCH Thrice; and once the hedge-pig whin’d. THIRD WITCH Harper cries: ’Tis time, ’tis time. FIRST WITCH Round about the cauldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw, Toad that under a cold stone, Days and nights hast thirty-one Swelter’d venom sleeping got Boil thou forth i’ the charmed pot. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. SECOND WITCH Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake, Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Some of Shakespeare’s Animals THIRD WITCH Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf, Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark, Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat and slips of yew, Silvered in the moon’s eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe, Ditch-delivered by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab; And thereto a tiger’s chaudron For the ingredients of our cauldron. ALL Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. SECOND WITCH Cool it with a baboon’s blood Then the charm is firm and good. —ActT IV. Sc. I. SECOND APPARITION Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care. —Act IV. Sc. I. HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK Mouse, Cock, Woodcock, Porpentine, Maggots, Dog, Crab, Kites, Raven, Camel, Weasel, Whale, Rat, Ape, Sponge, Worm, Sheep, Calves, Bugs, Robin (a name) Sheep, Calves. FRANCISCO Not a mouse stirring. —Actr I. Sc. I. HORATIO The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. —Act I. Sc. I. GHOST Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. —Act I. Sc. WV. HAMLET Then came each actor on his ass. —Act II. Sc. II. HAMLET Come; the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge. —Act III. Sc. II. HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? 65 66 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals POLONIUS By the mass, and ’tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET Or like a whale. POLONIUS Very like a whale. —Act III. Sc. II. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed on that worm. —Act IV. Sc. III. KING How do you do, pretty lady? OPHELIA Well, God ’ild you! They say the owl was a baker’s daughter, Lord! we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at your table! —Act IV. Sc. V. Nore.—An old story tells how one day Our Lord Jesus Christ and his disciples walked, and by the road-side stood a baker’s stall, and “The Master asked for bread,” which the baker was about to give Him, but his daughter said: “These men should pay for what they eat,” and “Jesus rebuked her and she was turned into an owl.” KING LEAR é Dog, Cur, Ass, Hedge-sparrow, Kite, Serpent, Oyster, Hetse. Bears, Monkeys, Eels, Wolf, Owl, Traving-honse. Worm, Cock, Frog, Toad, Tad- pole, Wall-newt, Sheep, Small Deer, Mastif, Grey- hound, Hound, Spaniel, Beetles, Lark, Wren, Fly, Swine, Rat, Cuckoo, Crow, Mouse, Brach, Lym, Fitchew, Swine. FOOL The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, That it had its head bit off by its young, —Act I. Sc. IV. LEAR How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child! —Act I. Sc. IV. FOOL Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell? —Act I. Sc. V. FOOL Ha, ha; look! he wears cruel garters! Horses are tied by the head; dogs and bears by the neck; monkeys by the loins, and men by the legs. —ActT II. Sc. IV. 67 68 Some of Shakespeare’s Animals REGAN To be a comrade with the wolf and owl. —dAct II. Sc. IV. LEAR Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, The sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. —ActT III. Sc. IV. EDGAR Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall-newt, . . . swallows the old rat, and the ditch-dog . . . who hath . . . his horse to ride, . But mice and rats, and such small-deer, Have been Tom’s food for seven long year. —ActT III. Sc. IV. EDGAR Mastif, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or lym. —ActT III. Sc. VI. EDGAR The crows, and choughs that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles; half-way down Hangs one that gathers samphire. —Act IV. Sc. VI. OTHELLO The Moor of Venice Ass, Horse, Guinea-hen, Baboon, Cod, Salmon, Goat, Monkeys, Wolves, Crocodile, Cats, Puppies, Ram, Ewe. IAGO Come be a man: Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies. —Act I. Se. III. OTHELLO If that the earth could teem with women’s tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. —ActT IV. Se. L 69 ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA Asp, Serpent, Snakes, Steed, Boars, Flies, Eagle, Crocodile, Horse, Hares, Beetle, Bear, Kite, Nightingale, Lion, Worm, Mares. MENECRATES Eight wild boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and but twelve persons there. —Act Il. Se. II. CLEOPATRA Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown’d with snakes. —ActT II. Sc. V. CLEOPATRA Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures Turn all to serpents ! —Act II. Se. V. LEPIDUS Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun; so is your croco- dile. —Act II. Sc. VII. ANTONY My nightingale. —Act IV. Sc. VIII. 70 Antony and Cleopatra 71 ANTONY Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish: A vapor sometime like a bear or lion. —Act IV. Sc. XII. CLEOPATRA . if knife, drugs, serpents have Edge, sting or operation, I am safe. —Act IV. Sc. XIII. CLEOPATRA (To the asp, which she applies to her breast) With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate. —Act V. Sc. II. CLEOPATRA O Antony !—Nay, I will take thee too. (Applying another asp to her arm) What should I stay (Dies). —Act V. Sc. II. CYMBELINE Cats, Dogs, Lark, Horse, Fox, Lamb, Owl, Eagle, Crow, Cock, Capon, Wolf, Chickens, Calves. CORNELIUS I do not like her. She doth think she has strange lingering poisons, . Which first perchance, she’ll prove on cats and dogs. —Act I. Se. V. ARVIGARUS The night to the owl and morn to the lark. —Act III. Sc. VI. SOOTHSAYER Of this yet scarce-cold battle, at this instant, Is full accomplished: For the Roman eagle. —Act V. Sc. V. 72 PERICLES Prince of Tyre Viper, Serpents, Glow-worm, Horse, Whale, Cat, Crickets, Mouse, Fly, Worm, Gosling, Harpy, Eagles, Baboon, Caterpillar. GOWER The cat with eyne of burning coal, Now couches ’fore the mouse’s hole; And crickets sing at th’ oven’s mouth, E’er the blither for their drouth. —Act III. Se. I. MARINA I never kill’d a mouse, nor hurt a fly; I trod upon a worm against my will. —dAct IV. Sc. I. 73 POEMS VENUS AND ADONIS Horses, Steed, Eagle, Doves, Dog, Jennet, Crows, Palfrey, Lamb, Colt, Courier, Mare, Wolf, Roe, Boar Swine, Hare, Sheep, Connies, Hound, Bear, Lion, Snail, Fox, Crows, Adder. More white and red than doves or roses are; Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky. Then be my deer, . . . No dog shall rouse thee; though a thousand bark. The colt that’s back’d and burthen’d being young Loseth his pride and never waxeth strong. Like a wild bird being tamed with too much hand- ling, Or as the fleet-foot roe that’s tired with chasing. The picture of an angry-chafing boar. But if thou needs wilt hunt, be ruled by me; Uncouple at the timorous flying hare, 74 Venus and Adonis 7s Or at the fox which lives by subtlety, Or roe which no encounter dare: Pursue these fearful creatures o’er the downs, And on thy well-breath’d horse keep with thy hounds. And sometime where earth-delving conies keep. Whereat she starts, like one that spies an adder. * * * * * * For now she knows it is no gentle chase, But blue boar, rough bear, or lion proud. Or, as the snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backwards in his shelly cave with pain, And there all smother’d up, in shade doth sit, Long after fearing to creep forth again. To see his face the lion walk’d along Behind some hedge, because he would not fear him; * * * * * * The tiger would be tame and gently hear him; If he had spoke, the wolf would leave his prey And never fright the silly lamb that day. Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves. THE RAPE OF LUCRECE Owls, Wolves, Lambs, Night-owl, Weasles, Bird, Falcon, Dove, Cockatrice, Cat, Hound, Bee, Cuckoos, Adders, Pack-horse, Worms, Raven, Unicorn, Swan, Crow, Eagles, Gnats, Mocking- birds, Deer, Serpent, Toads, Tiger, Coral. Now stole upon the time the dead of night, When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes; No comfortable star did lend its light, No noise but owls’ and wolves’ death-boding cries; Now serves the season that they may surprise The silly lambs: pure thoughts are dead and still, While lust and murder wakes to stain and kill. Night-wandering weasels shriek . The dove sleeps fast that this night-owl will catch. Who sees the lurking serpent steps aside. Which, like a falcon towering in the skies, Coucheth the foul below with his wing’s shade. With trembling fear, as fowl hear falcon’s bells. 76 The Rape of Lucrece 77 Here with a cockatrice’ death-killing eye Yet foul night-waking cat, he doth but dally While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth. The wolf has seized his prey, the poor lamb cries. Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows nests? Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud? To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter, To tame the unicorn and lion wild. The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire, And unperceiv’d fly with the filth away; But if the like the snow-white swan desire, The stain upon his silver down will stay. Poor grooms are sightless night, kings glorious day. Gnats are unnoted wheresoe’er they fly, But eagles gazed upon with every eye. The little birds that tune their morning’s joy, Make her moans mad with their sweet melody. “You mocking-birds,” quoth she, “your tunes entomb.” THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM Dove, Hound, Boar, Lark. IX Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love, * * * * * * Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove. SONNETS Lion, Tiger, Phenix, Worms, Adders. XIX Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws, And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws, And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood. A LOVER’S COMPLAINT Well could he ride, and often men would say, “That horse his mettle from his rider takes.’ 78 SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC Flocks, Rams, Ewes, Nightingales, Dogs, Cock. V Save the nightingale alone: She poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean’d her breast up till a thorn And there she sung the doleful ditty, That to hear it was great pity. THE PHCENIX AND THE TURTLE Eagle, Crow, Phenix, Turtle. Here the anthem doth commence: Love and constancy is dead, Phoenix and the turtle fled In a mutual flame from hence. THRENOS Phenix, Turtle. Death is now the pheenix’ nest; And the turtle’s loyal breast To eternity doth rest. — 79 Cornell University Library PR 3069.A59S17 il wi i 3 1924 013 163 922 olin