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Bottom. ... a lion among ladies, is a most 
dreadful thing: for there is not a more fearful wild¬ 
fowl than your lion, living; 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 1. 
WILD GOOSE. 
Puck. . . . when they him spy, 
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Jaques. . . . if he be free, 
Why then, my taxing like a wild goose flies, 
Unclaimed of any man. 
As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7. 
Falstajf. A king’s son ! If I do not beat thee out 
of thy kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all 
thy subjects afore thee like a flock of wild geese, I’ll 
never wear hair on my face more. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 4. 
GOOSE. 
Launce. ... I have stood on the pillory for 
geese he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for’t : 
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iv. Scene 4. 
Slender . . . . —Pray you, uncle, tell mistress 
Anne the jest, how my father stole two geese out of a 
pen, good uncle. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii. Scene 4. 
