470 The Zoologist — November, 1866. 



" Light thickens, and the crotv mates wing to the rooky wood." 



Macbeth, Act iii. Scene 2. 



" Cyprus, black as e'er was crow." 



Winter's Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 



" So with the dove of Paphos might the crow vie feathers white." 



Pericles, Act iv., Introduction. 



The old text reads, " The dove of Paphos might with the crow," &c. 



" That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper." 



King Lear, Act iv. Scene 6. 



i. e., like a boy employed to keep the crows from the corn-fields. 

 So again, 



" Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper." 



Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 4. 



To fright the crows from the corn, a poor rustic, who, though armed 

 with bow and arrows, was not supposed to have much skill in archery, 

 was sometimes employed, and at others his place was supplied by a 

 stuffed figure resembling a man, and armed in the same way. 

 Ascham, in his * Toxophilus,' when speaking of a clumsy archer, has a 

 similar comparison to that in the text : he says, " Another cometh downe 

 and layeth out his buttockes, as though hee should shoote at 

 Crowes." 



" So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows. 

 As yon fair lady o'er her fellows shows." 



Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 5. 



" Compare her face with some that I shall show, 

 And I will make thee think thy swan a crow." 



Id., Act i. Scene 2. 



" I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me." 



Much Ado About Nothing, Act i. Scene I. 



" We'll pluck a crow together." 



Comedy of Errors, Act iii. Scene 1. 



Rook iCorvus frugilegus). 



" Bully rook." 



Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i. Scene 3. 



" When turtles tread, and rooks and daws." 



Song, Love's Labour Lost. 



