11 2 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
All Servants . Gramercies, good fool: how does 
your mistress ? 
Fool. She’s e’en setting on water to scald 
Such chickens as you are. 
Timon of Athens, Act ii. Scene 2. 
PosthumiLS. . . . forthwith, they fly 
Chickens, the way which they stoop’d eagles; 
Cymbeline, Act v. Scene 3. 
Macduff. . 
What, all my pretty chickens, 
Macbeth, Act iv. Scene 3. 
FOWL. 
Dromio F. ... I pray thee, let me in. 
Dromio S. (within). Ay, when fowls have no 
feathers, and fish have no fin. 
Ant. E. Well, I’ll break in : go, borrow me a 
crow. 
Dromio E. A crow without feather ; master, mean 
you so? 
For a fish without a fin, there’s a fowl without a 
feather : 
If a crow help us in, sirrah, we’ll pluck a crow to¬ 
gether. 
Comedy of Errors, Act iii. Scene 1. 
Isabella. . . . Even for our kitchens 
We kill the fowl of season : 
Measure for Measure, Act ii. Scene 2. 
Cardinal. 
Believe me, cousin Gloster, 
