76 NA TURAL HISTOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Williams. . . . you may as well go about to 
turn the sun to ice, with fanning in his face with a 
peacock’s feather. 
King Henry V., Act iv. Scene i. 
La Pucelle. Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while, 
And like a peacock sweep along his tail; 
We’ll pull his plumes, and take away his train, • 
If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled. 
King Henry VI., Part I. Act iii. Scene 3. 
Thersites. Why, he stalks up and down like a 
peacock,—a stride, and a stand: 
Troilus and Cressida, Act iii. Scene 3. 
PARROT. 
Dro7nio E. Mistress, respice finem , respect your 
end ; or rather the prophecy, like the parrot, Beware 
the rope's end. 
Comedy of Errors, Act iv. Scene 4. 
Benedict. Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher. 
Beatrice . A bird of my tongue is better than a 
beast of yours. 
Much Ado about Nothing, Act i. Scene 1. 
Rosalind. ... I will be more jealous of thee 
than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen; more 
clamorous than a parrot against rain; 
As You Like It, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Salarino. Nature hath framed strange fellows in 
her time : 
