44 EGGS IN LITERATURE. 
“ He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister.” 
All’s Well That Ends Well, Act IV. Se. 3. 
“Tf you love an addle egg as well as you 
love an idle head, you would eat chickens 1 
the shell.” 
Troilus and Cressida, Act I. Se. 2. 
“Yet, they say, we are 
Almost as like as eggs.” 
Winter’s Tale, Act I. Se. 2. 
Falstaff. “Not so much as will serve to. be 
prologue to an egg and butter.” 
Henry LV Part 1. Act f Sere. 
“They are up already, and call for eggs and 
butter.” 
Henry IV. Part tL Act Ii Saxe 
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot 
Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs.” 
Henry V. Act I. Se. 2. 
*“ Go thou; I'll fetch some flax and whites of 
eggs to apply to his bleeding face.” 
Lear, Act I. Se. 7. 
