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SWAN. CYGNET. 
Celia . ... if she be a traitor, 
Why so am I; we still have slept together, 
Rose at an instant, learn’d, play’d, eat together; 
And wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans, 
Still we went coupled, and inseparable. 
As You Like It, Act i. Scene 3. 
Portia . ....... 
Let music sound, while he doth make his choice ; 
Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, 
Fading in music : 
Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Prince Henry. I am the cygnet to this pale faint 
swan, 
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death ; 
King John, Act v. Scene 7. 
Suffolk. So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, 
Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings. 
King Henry VI., Part I. Act v. Scene 3. 
Antony. . . . the swan’s down feather 
That stands upon the swell at full of tide, 
And neither way inclines. 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Emilia. ... I will play the swan, _ 
And die in music ;— 
Othello, Act v. Scene 2. 
