86 NA RURAL HISTOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
# RAVEN. 
Caliban. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush’d 
With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen, 
Drop on you both ! 
The Tempest, Act i. Scene 2. 
Pistol . Young ravens must have food. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act i. Scene 3. 
Hotspur. . . . sometime he angers me, 
With telling me of ... . 
A clip-wing’d griffin, and a moulten raven, 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act iii. Scene 1. 
King Henry . What, doth my lord of Suffolk comfort 
me ? 
Came he right now to sing a raven’s note, 
Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers ; 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iii. Scene 2. 
King Henry. The raven rook’d her on the chimney’s 
top, 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act v. Scene 6. 
Thersites. ... I would croak like a raven ; 
I would bode, I would bode. 
Troilus and Cressida, Act v. Scene 2. 
Juliet. For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night 
Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back.— 
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Scene 2. 
