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That bate, and beat, and will not be obedient. 

 She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat ; 

 Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not." 

 Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Sc. i. 



The word " stoop," sometimes written " stoup " (Spenser's 

 "Faerie Queene," Book I. Canto XI. 18), and "swoop" 

 (Macbeth, " at one fell swoop "), signifies a rapid descent 

 on the " quarry." It occurs again in Henry V. Act iv. 

 Sc. i : 



" And though his affections are higher mounted than 

 ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing." 



The hawks, when carried to the field, were borne on 

 the cadge," as shown in the engraving; the person 



