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species—to which I am able to refer. I am also indebted to Mr. 
Harting for many valuable hints on local provincial names, &c. 
The words attributed to Caius Lucius in praise of noble Cesar 
are truly applicable, although in a different sense, to Shakspeare— 
“ Whose remembrance yet 
Lives in men’s eyes, and will to ears and tongues 
Be theme and hearing ever.” 
Cymbeline. Act iii., Scene 1. 
THe Monkey, Semnopithecus or Colobus. 
Although Shakspeare several times alludes to Monkeys, uo 
particular species is sufficiently characterized for identification ; 
they may, however, doubtless be referred to the Old World family 
Semnopithecide, which comprises the long-tailed Monkeys without 
cheek-pouches. The two genera of this family have a wide 
geographical distribution, being found in one sub-region of the 
Palearctic ; two ditto of the Ethiopian; and in all the sub-regions 
of the Oriental, as defined by Mr. A. R. Wallace. 
“On meddling Monkey, or on busy Ape.” 
Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i1., Scene 2. 
Monkeys were even in those days kept as pets by ladies; vide 
Merchant of Venice, Act iii., Scene 1— 
Tusa. ‘One of them showed me a ring, that he had of your daughter 
for a Monkey.” 
Shylock had a turquoise which he had of Leah when he was a 
bachelor, and would not have given “ for a wilderness of Monkeys.” 
Merchant of Venice, Act iii., Scene 1. 
In As You Like It, Act iv., Scene 1, where Orlando wishes to 
matry Rosalind, aud promises to be constant to her “ for ever and 
a day,” Rosalind replies :— 
“Say a day, without the ever. No, no, Orlando; men are April when 
they woo, December when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, 
but the sky changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous of thee 
than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more clamorous than a parrot 
against rain; more new-fangled than an Ape: more giddy in my desires 
than a Monkey.” 
