BIRDS. 
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Nurse. ... an eagle, madam, 
Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye, 
As Paris hath. 
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Scene 5. 
Cleon. Thou art like the harpy, 
Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel’s face, 
Seize with thine eagle’s talons. 
Pericles, Act iv. Scene 4. 
Soothsayer. I saw Jove’s bird, the Roman eagle, 
wing’d 
From the spungy south to this part of the west, 
There vanish’d in the sunbeams : which portends, 
(Unless my sins abuse my divination), 
Success to the Roman host. 
Cymbeline, Act iv. Scene 2. 
VULTURE. 
Pistol. Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also ! 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act v. Scene 3. 
Lear. O Regan, she hath tied 
Sharp-tooth’d unkindness, like a vulture, here,— 
[Points to his heart. 
King Lear, Act ii. Scene 4. 
FALCON. 
Petrucio. My falcon now is sharp, and passing 
empty: 
Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Scene 1. 
