94 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHA KESPEARE. 
Bottcnn. ... I will roar you an’t were any 
nightingale. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act i. Scene 2. 
Portia. ... I think, 
The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, would be thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 
Merchant of Venice, Act v. Scene 1. 
Lord. Wilt thou have music ? hark ! Apollo plays, 
And twenty caged nightingales do sing : 
Petrucio. Say, that she rail; why, then I’ll tell her 
plain 
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale : 
Taming of the Shrew, Ind., Scene 2 ; 
Act ii. Scene 1. 
Juliet. Wilt thou be gone ? it is not yet near day : 
It was the nightingale, and not the lark, 
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; 
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree : 
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. 
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Scene 5. 
Edgar. The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the 
voice of a nightingale. 
King Lear, Act iii. Scene 6 . 
As it fell upon a day, 
In the merry month of May, 
Sitting in a pleasant shade 
Which a grove of myrtles made, 
Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, 
Trees did grow, and plants did spring: 
