The Turkey-cock and Peacock 
scarcely restrain themselves. Fabian en- 
treats silence : 
O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey- 
cock of him: how he jets under his advanced 
plumes.! 
It will be remembered that among the 
produce on its way to London in the carts 
of the two carriers at the Rochester inn 
there was a pannier of live turkeys.” 
The peacock is alluded to several times 
in the Plays as the accepted personification 
of pride. Joan of Arc is represented as 
counselling the Princes : 
Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while 
And like a peacock sweep along his tail ; 
We'll pull his plumes and take away his train.* 
Thersites says of Ajax that he “goes up 
and down the field asking for himself; he 
stalks up and down like a peacock—a stride 
and a stand.”* When King Henry V. 
1 Twelfth Night, 11. v. 28. 2 pene y EP a 2G 3 
31 Henry VI, i. ili. 5. Chaucer refers to 
The pecock, with his aungels fethres brighte. 
4 Troilus and Cressida, ii, ill. 244. 
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