ANIMALS. 
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Pericles. The blind mole casts 
Copp’d hills toward heaven, to tell, the earth is 
throng’d 
By man’s oppression; 
Pericles, Act i. Scene 1. 
WEASEL. 
Jaques . I can suck melancholy out of 
a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. 
As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 5. 
Lady . Out, you mad-headed ape ! 
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen 
As you are toss’d with. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 3. 
Westmoreland. For once the eagle England being 
in prey, 
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot 
Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs; 
King Henry V., Act i. Scene 2. 
Hamlet. Methinks, it is like a weasel. 
Polonhcs. It is backed like a weasel. 
Hamlet, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Pisanio. As quarrellous as the weasel; 
Cymbeline, Act iii. Scene 4. 
FERRET. 
Bnttus . . . . such ferret and such fiery eyes, 
Julius C^sar, Act i. Scene 2. 
