IIO NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE . 
Speed. . . . You were wont, when you laughed, 
to crow like a cock • 
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act ii. Scene i. 
Oberon. And look thou meet me ere the first cock 
crow. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act ii. Scene i. 
Jacques. When I did hear 
The motley fool thus moral on the time, 
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, 
As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7. 
Katharine . What is your crest ? A coxcomb ? 
Petrucio. A combless cock, so Kate will be my 
hen. 
Kathaidne. No cock of mine, you crow too like a 
craven. 
Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Horatio. ... I have heard, 
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, 
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat 
Awake the god of day ; and, at his warning, 
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, 
The extravagant and erring spirit hies 
To his 'confine : 
Marcellas. ...... 
Some say, that ever ’gainst that season comes 
Wherein our Saviour’s birth is celebrated, 
The bird of dawning singeth all night long ; 
Hamlet, Act i. Scene 1. 
Porter . ’Faith, sir, we were carousing till the second 
cock : 
Macbeth, Act ii. Scene 3. 
