124 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE . 
Bolingbroke. The time when screech-owls cry, and 
ban-dogs howl, 
Gloster . A staff is quickly found to beat a dog . 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act i. Scene 4; 
Act iii. Scene 1. 
Richard . ...... 
Or as a bear, encompass’d round with dogs; 
Who having pinch’d a few, and made them cry 
The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him. 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act ii. Scene 1. 
King Henry. To me you cannot reach, you play 
the spaniel, 
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me; 
King Henry VIII., Act v. Scene 3. 
Brutus. And, gentle friends, 
Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; 
Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods, 
Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds : 
Brutus . I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. 
Julius Cesar, Act ii. Scene 1 ; Act iv. Scene iii. 
Nestor. Two curs shall tame each other : pride 
alone 
Must tarre the mastiffs on, as ’twere their bone. 
Thersites. ... he will spend his mouth, and 
promise, like Brabler the hound; 
Troilus and Cressida, Act i. Scene 3 ; 
Act v. Scene 1. 
