78 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Revenged may she be on that hateful duke; 
Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire, 
Will cost my crown, and, like an empty eagle, 
Tire on the flesh of me and of my son ! 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act i. Scene i. 
Cassius. Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign 
Two mighty eagles fell ; and there they perch’d, 
Gorging and feeding from our soldiers’ hands, 
Who to Philippi here consorted us ; 
This morning are they fled away, and gone ; 
And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites, 
Fly o’er our heads, and downward look on us, 
As we were sickly prey; 
Julius Caesar, Act v. Scene i. 
Meccznas . Eight wild boars roasted whole at a 
breakfast, and but twelve persons there : is this true ? 
Enobarbus . This was but as a fly by an eagle : we 
had much more monstrous matter of feasts, which 
worthily deserved noting. 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act ii. Scene 2. 
Coriolanus . If you have writ your anhals true, ’tis 
there, 
That like an eagle in a dove-cote, I 
Flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli: 
Coriolanus, Act v. Scene 6. 
Poet. ... no levell’d malice 
Infects one comma in the course I hold; 
But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on, 
Leaving no track behind. 
Timon of Athens, Act i. Scene 1. 
