260 SHAKESPEARE'S [ROE. 



Roe (or Roebuck). 



TAMING OF THE SHREW, Induction, 2, 50. 



THEIR swiftness doth not only appear upon the earth, 

 but also upon the waters, for with their feet they cut the 

 waters when they swim as with oars. It hath also been 

 believed that a Roe doth not change her horns, because 

 they are never found ; whereas in truth, they fall off 

 yearly as doth a Hart's, but they hide them to the intent 

 they should not be found. They never wink, no, not 

 when they sleep. They are often taken by the counter- 

 feiting of their voice, which the hunter doth by taking a 

 leaf and hissing upon it. 



Topsell, "Four-footed Beasts," pp. 91-2. 



V. Hart. 

 Rook. 



MACBETH, iii. 4, 125. 



A ROOK, Chough or Daw. 



Minshetts Dictionary, s.v. 



THE crow liveth not altogether of carrion, for the Rook 

 eateth of other food. The Crows and Rooks have a cast 

 by themselves, for when they meet with an hard nut which 

 they be not able to crack, they will fly aloft and fling it 

 against some rock or tile-house once or twice, yea, and 

 many times together, till it be so crushed and bruised, that 

 they may easily break it quite. 



Holland's Pliny, bk. x. ch. xii. 



V. Crow. 

 Rope. 



TEMPEST, i. i, 33. 



IF you take the Rope with which a thief is or has been 

 hanged, and some of the straw which is carried into the 

 air by an eddy of wind, and put it in a pot, and put that 

 pot with others, that pot will break all the others. Alsc 

 take a piece of the aforesaid Rope and put it iri the instru- 

 ment with which bread is put into the oven, and when h< 



