260 SHAKESPEARE’S [ ROE. 
Roe (or Roebuck). 
Taminc OF THE SHREW, Jnductiwn, 2, 50. 
Tuerr swiftness doth not only appear upon the earth, 
but also upon the waters, for with their feet they cut the 
waters when they swim as with oars. It hath also been 
believed that a Roe doth not change her horns, because 
they are never found; whereas in truth, they fall off 
yearly as doth a Hart’s, but they hide them to the intent 
they should not be found. They never wink, no, not 
when they sleep. They are often taken by the counter- 
feiting of their voice, which the hunter doth by taking a 
leaf and hissing upon it. 
Topsell, “Four-footed Beasts,” pp. 91-2. 
V. Hart. 
Rook. 
MacseTH, iil, 4, 125. 
A Rook, Chough or Daw. 
Minshew’s Dictionary, 5.7. 
Tue crow liveth not altogether of carrion, for the Rook 
eateth of other food. "The Crows and Rooks have a cast 
by themselves, for when they meet with an hard nut which 
they be not able to crack, they will fly aloft and fling it 
against some rock or tile-house once or twice, yea, and 
many times together, till it be so crushed and bruised, that 
they may easily break it quite. 
Hollana’s Pliny, bk. x. ch. xii. 
V. Crow. 
Rope. 
TEMPEST, 1. I, 33. 
Ir you take the Rope with which a thief is or has been 
hanged, and some of the straw which is carried into the 
air by an eddy of wind, and put it in a pot, and put that 
pot with others,—that pot will break all the others. Also 
take a piece of the aforesaid Rope and put it in the instru- 
ment with which bread is put into the oven, and when he 
