144 WA TURAL HISTOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Demetrius. Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot 
carry his discretion; and the fox carries the goose. 
Theseus. His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry 
his valour; for the goose carries not the fox. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act v. Scene i. 
Moth. The fox, the ape, and the humble bee, 
Were still at odds, being but three : 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act iii. Scene i. 
Falstaff. There’s no more faith in thee than in a 
stewed prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a 
drawn fox; 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act iii. Scene 3. 
Falstaff. To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a 
fox. 
King Henry IV. , Part II. Act i. Scene 2. 
Suffolk . The fox barks not when he would steal 
the lamb. 
. . were’t not madness then, 
To make the fox surveyor of the fold ? 
No; let him die, in that he is a fox, 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act iii. Scene 1. 
Gloster (aside). But when the fox hath once got 
in his nose, 
He’ll soon find means to make the body follow. 
King Henry VI., Part III. Act iv. Scene 7. 
Cressida. . . . when they have said,—as false 
As air, as water, as wind, as sandy earth, 
