652 The Zoologist — April, 1867. 



" He eats nothing but doves love," 



Troika and Cressida, Act iii. Scene 1. 



A weakness which he deprecates as being heating to the blood. 



" To be furious 

 Ts to be frighted out of fear ; and in that mood 

 The dove will peck the ostrich." 



Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Scene 2. 



" So cowards fight when they can fly no farther 

 So doves do peck the falcou's piercing talons." 



Henry VI., Part 3, Act i. Scene 4. 



" And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood." 



Id., Act ii. Scene 2. 



" But bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench 

 Are from their hives and houses driven away." 



Henry VI., Part 1, Act i. Scene 5. 



" I an old turtle 

 Will wing me to some wither'd bough, and there 

 My mate that's never to be found again 



Lament till I am lost." 



Id., Act v. Scene 3. 

 " Fare you well my dove." 



Hamlet. 



Pheasant {Phasianus Colchicus). 



" None, sir, I have no pheasant, cock nor hen." 



Winter's Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. 



Partridge (Perdix cinerea). 



" Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest, 

 But may imagine how the bird was dead, 

 Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak." 



Henry VI., Part 2, Act iii. Scene 2. 



Such was the beautiful metaphor uttered by the Earl of Warwick 

 upon the occasion of the Duke of Gloucester's death. The unfortunate 

 Duke Humphrey was discovered dead in his bed, with marks of a 

 violent death upon his features, and grave suspicion fell upon the 

 Duke of Suffolk, who "had him in protection." This circumstance, 

 coupled with the fact that Suffolk was a sworn enemy of the Duke, 

 placed a heavy weight in the balance against him. 



