152 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Gower. The cat, with eyne of burning coal, 
Now couches from the mouse’s hole ; 
Pericles, Act iii. 
Edgar. Pur ! the cat is gray. 
King Lear, Act iii. Scene 6. 
Lady M. Letting I dare not wait upon I would, 
Like the poor cat i’ the adage. 
i st Witch. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. 
Macbeth, Act i. Scene 7; Act iv. Scene 1. 
Shylock. Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; 
Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Hotspitr. I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act iii. Scene 1. 
RAT. 
Prospero. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark; 
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared 
A rotten carcase of a boat, not rigg’d, 
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats 
Instinctively have quit it; 
Tempest, Act i. Scene 2. 
Shallow. I have seen the time with my 
long sword I would have made you four tall fellows 
skip like rats. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act ii. Scene 1. 
Claudio. 
Our natures do pursue 
