io 4 HA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHA KESPEARE. 
Benvolio. Compare her face with some that I shall 
show, 
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. 
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Scene 2. 
Imogen . I’ the world’s volume 
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in it; 
In a great pool, a swan’s nest. 
Cymbeline, Act iii. Scene 4. 
Aaron. For all the water in the ocean 
Can never turn the swan’s black, legs to white, 
Although she lave them hourly in the flood : 
Titus Andronicus, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Let the priest in surplice white, 
That defunctive music can, 
Be the death-divining swan, 
Lest the requiem lack his right. 
The Phcenix and the Turtle. 
OSPREY. 
Aufidius. I think he’ll be to Rome, 
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it 
By sovereignty of nature. 
Coriolanus, Act iv. Scene 7. 
HANDSAW (a Heron). 
Hamlet . . . . when the wind is southerly I 
know a hawk from a handsaw. 
Hamlet, Act ii. Scene 2. 
