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Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, 
And laugh, like parrots, at a bagpiper : 
Lorenzo. I think, the best grace of wit will shortly 
turn into silence; and discourse grow commendable 
in none only but parrots. 
Merchant of Venice, Act i. Scene i ; 
Act iii. Scene 5. 
Prince Henry. That ever this fellow should have 
fewer words than a parrot, and yet the son of a 
woman ! 
King Henry IV., Part i. Act ii. Scene 4. 
EAGLE. 
Bast. . . . know, the gallant monarch is in 
arms; 
And, like an eagle o’er his aiery, towers, 
To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.— 
King John, Act v. Scene 2. 
York. Yet looks he like a king ; behold, his eye, 
As bright as is the eagle’s, lightens forth 
Controlling majesty : 
King Richard II., Act iii. Scene 3. 
Falstaff. . . . when I was about thy years, 
Hal, I was not an eagle’s talon in the waist; 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 4. 
King Henry . Poor queen ! how love to me, and to 
her son, 
Hath made her break out into terms of rage! 
