122 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
So flow’d, so sanded; and their heads are hung 
With ears that sweep away the morning dew; 
Crook-knee’d and dew-lapp’d like Thessalian bulls; 
Slow in pursuit, but match’d in mouth like bells, 
Each under each. A cry more tuneable 
Was never holla’d to, nor cheer’d with horn, 
In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly : 
Judge, when you hear. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act iv. Scene i. 
Beatrice. ... I had rather hear my dog bark 
at a crow, than a man swear he loves me 
Benedict [aside). An he had been a dog that should 
have howled thus, they would have hanged him : 
Much Ado about Nothing, Act i. Scene i • 
Act ii. Scene 3. 
Clown. Do not desire to see this letter. 
Fabian. This is, to give a dog, and in recompense 
desire my dog again. 
Twelfth Night, Act v. Scene 1. 
Celia. Why, cousin ; why, Rosalind ;—Cupid have 
mercy !—not a word ? 
Rosalind. Not one to throw at a dog. 
As You Like It, Act i. Scene 3. 
Gratiano. . . . I am sir Oracle ,, 
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark ! 
Merchant of Venice, Act i. Scene 1. 
Lord. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my 
hounds: 
Brach Merriman,—the poor cur is emboss’d; 
