660 The Zoologist — April, 1867. 



" He that trusts to you, 

 Where he should fiud you lions, finds you hares, 

 Where foxes, geese." 



Coriolanus, Act v. Seme I . 



* * * " I'll never 

 Be such a goding as to obey instinct." 



Id., Act i. Scene 3. 



(Falstnff) " If I do not beat thee out of thy kingdom with a dagger of lath, and 

 drive all thy subjects before thee like a (luck of wild geese, I'll never wear hair on my 

 face more." — Henry IV., Part I., Act ii. Scene 4. 



" Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain, 

 I'd drive you cackling home to Cameloi." 



King Lear, Act ii. Scene 2. 



There appears to be some difference of opinion as to what place is 

 meant by the ancient name Camelot. Selden, in his notes to 

 Drayton's ' Polyolbion,' says : " By South Cadbury is that Camelot ; 

 a hill of a mile compass at the top ; four trenches encircling it, and 

 betwixt every of them an earthen wall; the contents of it within about 

 twenty acres, full of ruins and relics of old buildings." 



In the 'History of King Arthur' (Chap. 26), Camelot is located in 

 the West of England, Somersetshire, while in Chapter 44, it is related 

 that Sir Balen's sword " swam down the stream to the citie of 

 Camelot that is in English Winchester? 



When Caxton finished the printing of the ' Mort d' Arthur,' in 1485, 

 he says of the hero : " He is more spoken of beyond the sea * * * 

 and yet of record remain witness of him in Wales, in the town of 

 Camelot the great stones and marvelous works," &c. 



Tennyson, in his ' Morte^d' Arthur,' twice mentions Camelot, and in 

 his * Lady of Shalott' frequently alludes to " many tower'd Camelot," 

 but in neither poem is any clue to its precise situation given. 



" Nay, if our wits run the wild goose chase, I am done." 



Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Scene 4. 



The wild goose chase was a barbarous sort of horse race, in which 

 two horses were started together, and the rider who first got the lead 

 compelled the other to follow him over whatever ground he chose. (See 

 Chambers' Dictionary, last edition, article "Chase;" also Holt 

 White's note to this passage in the ' Variorum Shakespeare.') 



