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Natural Antipathies. 
are twice the size of ours, but something smaller than the 
peacock. The tail-feathers are eight or ten palms in 
length ” ( Travels , p. 225, ed. Marsden, 1813). 
“ The princely Cock distinguished the hours,” writes 
Drayton; and Du Bartas, in his poem on the 
Creation, thus describes the “Harbinger of 
Morn:”— 
“ Close by bis side stands the courageous cock, 
Crest-peoples king, the peasants trusty clock, 
True morning watch, Aurora’s trumpeter, 
The lyons terror, true astronomer, 
Who daily riseth when the sun doth rise ; 
And when Sol setteth then to roost he hies.” 
(Fifth Day, p. 46.) 
The notion to which reference is here made, that the 
lion had a strong antipathy to the crowing of a cock, is 
mentioned by Beginald Scot, 1584, in a passage which 
recalls ShylocFs answer to the Dukes appeal for 
clemency 
“ It is almost incredible, that the grunting, or rather the wheeking 
of a little pig, or the sight of a simple sheep should terrify a mighty 
elephant; and yet by that means the Romans did put to flight Pyrrhus 
and all his hoast. A man would hardly beleeve, that a cocks combe or 
his crowing should abash a puissant lion; but that the experience 
hereof hath satisfied the whole world. Who would think that a ser¬ 
pent should abandon the shadow of an ash, etc. ? But it seemeth not 
strange because it is common, that some man otherwise hardy and 
stout enough should not dare to abide or endure the sight of a cat.” 
(Discovery of Witchcraft, p. 70, ed. 1654.) 
According to Hakewill (Apologie, p. 13) King James I. 
made trial of the lion’s courage, and found that it was 
quite proof against the crowing of a cock. 
The porter in Macbeth replies to the accusation of 
keeping late hours, “ Faith, sir, we were carousing till the 
second cock,”—a time identical with that referred to by 
Lady Macbeth after the banquet, " Almost at odds with 
morning, which is which.” 
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