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SHAKESPEARE'S 



[PHOENIX. 



A PHEASANT, larded. 



Massinger, " New Way to pay Old Debts," i. 2. 



You shall eat nothing but shrimp-porridge for a fort- 

 night ; and now and then a Pheasant's egg supped with a 

 peacock's feather. Brome, "The Sparagus Garden," ii. 3. 



PARTRIDGES, Pheasants, woodcocks and the like, in some 

 places so abound with us, as they bear little or no price. 

 Fynes Moryson, "Itinerary," part iii. p. 134. 



Phoenix. 



TEMPEST, iii. 3, 23. 



iii. KING HENRY VL, i. 4, 36. 



PHCENIX is a bird, and there is but one of that kind in 

 all the wide world ; therefore lewd men wonder thereof. 

 Phoenix is a bird without make [mate], and liveth three 



hundred or five hundred years ; when the which years be 

 passed, she feeleth her own default and feebleness, and 

 maketh a nest of right sweet smelling sticks, that be full 



