242 SHAKESPEARE'’S [PH@NIX. 
A Pueasant, larded. 
Massinger, ‘New Way to pay Old Debts,” i. 2. 
You shall eat nothing but shrimp-porridge for a fort- 
night ; and now and then a Pheasant’s egg supped with a 
peacock’s feather. Brome, “The Sparagus Garden,” ii. 3. 
PartRipDGEs, Pheasants, woodcocks and the like, in some 
places so abound with us, as they bear little or no price. 
Fynes Moryson, “Itinerary,” part iit, p. 134. 
Pheenix. 
TEMPEST, iii. 3, 23. , 
iii, Kinc Henry VL, i. 4, 36. 
Puenix is a bird, and there is but one of that kind in 
all the wide world; therefore lewd men wonder thereof. 
Pheenix is a bird without make [mate], and liveth three 
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hundred or five hundred years; when the which years be 
passed, she feeleth her own default and feebleness, and 
maketh a nest of right sweet smelling sticks, that be full 
