126 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Gloster. Ay, sir. 
Lear. And the creature run from the cur ? There 
thou might’st behold the great image of authority : a 
dog’s obey’d in office. 
Cornelia . . . . Mine enemy’s dog, 
Though he had bit me, should have stood that night 
Against my fire. 
King Lear, Act i. Scene 4 ; Act iii. Scene 6 ; 
Act iv. Scenes 6 and 7. 
Cornelius. . . . She doth think she has 
Strange lingering poisons : . . 
Those she has 
Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile : 
Which first, perchance, she’ll prove on cats and 
dogs; 
Cornelius. The queen, sir, very oft importuned 
me 
To temper poisons for her ; still pretending 
The satisfaction of her knowledge only 
In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs 
Of no esteem : 
Cymbeline, Act i. Scene 5 ; Act v. Scene 5. 
1 si Murderer . We are men, my liege. 
Miacbeth. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; 
As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are cleped 
All by the name of dogs : 
Macbeth, Act iii. Scene 1. 
