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The speaker being evidently of opinion that a snipe was too in- 

 significant a bird to the sportsman to warrant his taking much 

 trouble to secure it, except for mere sport. 



Goose [Anser ferus). 



As You Like It, Act iii. Scene 4. 



Love's Labour Lost, Act ii. Scene 1 ; Act iv. Scene 2. 



Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Scene 1. 



Tempest, Act ii. Scene 2. 



Merry Wives of Windsor, Act v. Scene 1. 



Borneo and Juliet, Act ii. Scene 4. 



Coriolanus, Act i. Scene 1. 



" Winter's not gone if the wild geese fly that way." 



King Lear, Act ii, Scene 4. 



* The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding." 



Love's Labour Lost, Act i. Scene I. 



" When every goose is cackling." 



Merchant of Venice, Act v. Scene 1. 



May is the time for a green goose, i. e. a goose fed on grass in 

 contradistinction to a stubble or Michaelmas goose : 



" So stubble geese at Michaelmas are seen 

 Upon the spit; next May produces green." 



King's ' Art of Cookery.' 



" I have stood on the pillory for geese he hath 

 Kill'd, otherwise he had suffered for't." 



Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. Scene 4. 



« His discretion I am sure cannot carry his valour, for the goose carries not the 

 fox.."— Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Scene 1. 



" Why then my taxing like a wild goose flies, 

 Unclaim'd of any man." 



.4* You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7. 



" As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye." 



Midsummer Night's Dream, Act iii. Scene 2. 



" You souls of ^ree^that.bear the shapes of men." 



Coriolanus, Act i. Scene 4. 



