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Glen dower . ... at my birth, 
The frame and huge foundation of the earth 
Shaked like a coward. 
Hotspur. Why, so it would have done at the same 
season, if your mother’s cat had but kittened, though 
yourself had never been born. 
Hotspur. ... a ramping cat, 
Fal.'staff. I am as vigilant as a cat to steal 
cream. 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act iii. Scene 1 ; 
Act iv. Scene 3. 
Thersites. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a 
fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a her¬ 
ring without a roe, I would not care : but to be 
Menelaus, I would conspire against destiny. 
Troilus and Cressida, Act v. Scene 1. 
lago. Come, be a man. Drown thyself? 
drown cats and blind puppies. 
Othello, Act i. Scene 3. 
Marches. The mouse ne’er shunn’d the cat as they 
did budge 
From rascals worse than they. 
C ORTOLANu s, Act i. Scene 6. 
Hamlet. Let Hercules himself do what he may, 
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 
Hamlet, Act v. Scene 1. 
Benvolio. Why, what is Tybalt? 
Mercutio . More than prince of cats, I can tell you. 
Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Scene 4. 
