ioo NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Scams. Swallows have built 
In Cleopatra’s sails their nests : 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv. Scene io. 
2 d Lord. The swallow follows not summer 
More willing than we your lordship. 
Timon of Athens, Act iii. Scene 6. 
Titles. And I have horse will follow where the 
game 
Makes way. and run like swallows o’er the plain. 
Titus Andronicus, Act ii. Scene 2. 
MARTLET. 
Banquo. This guest of summer, 
The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, 
By his loved mansionry, that the heaven’s breath 
Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, 
Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird 
Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : 
Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, 
The air is delicate. 
Macbeth, Act i. Scene 6. 
HEDGE SPARROW. 
Fool. The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, 
That it had its head bit off by its young. 
King Lear, Act i. Scene 4. 
Ceres . 
SPARROW. 
Tell me, heavenly bow, 
