io 5 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
MALLET. MALLARD. 
Falstaff. . . . there is no more conceit in him 
than is in a mallet. 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act ii. Scene 4. 
Scarus. Claps on his sea-wing, and like a doting 
mallard, 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iii. Scene 8. 
WILD DUCK. 
Falstaff. . . . there’s no more valour in that 
Poins than in a wild duck. 
Falstaff. . . . such as fear the report of a 
caliver worse than a struck fowl, or a hurt wild duck. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 2 ; 
Act iv. Scene 2. 
DIVE-DAPPER. 
Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave, 
Who, being look’d on, ducks as quickly in; 
Venus and Adonis. 
WILD-FOWL. 
Clown. What is the opinion of Pythagoras con¬ 
cerning wild-fowl ? 
Twelfth Night, Act iv. Scene 2. 
