EGGS IN LITERATURE. 45 
“Thou hadst shiver’d like an egg.” 
Lear, Act IV. Se. 6. 
Fool. “Give me an egg, nuncle, and I'll give 
thee two crowns. 
Lear. What two crowns shall they be ? 
Fool. Why, after I have cut the egg 1’ the 
middle, and eat up the meat, the two crowns of 
the egg.” 
Lear, Act I. Se. 4. 
“What, you egg! 
Young fry of treachery!” 
Macebeth, Act IV. Se. 2. 
ke 
PROVERBS, 
‘'HERE’S reason in roasting of eggs. 
As full as an egg is of meat. 
Don’t have too many eggs in one basket. 
