154 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE . 
Cornelius. ... If Pisanio 
Have , said she, given his 7 nistress that confection 
Which I gave him for cordial , she is served 
As I would serve a rat. 
Cymbeline, Act y. Scene 5. 
1 st Witch . Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master 
o’ the Tiger : 
But in a sieve I’ll thither sail, 
And, like a rat without a tail, 
I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do. 
Macbeth, Act i. Scene 3. 
MOUSE. 
Lucio. He—to give fear to use and liberty, 
Which have, for long, run by the hideous law, 
As mice by lions— 
Measure for Measure, Act i. Scene 5. 
Lion. You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear 
The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor, 
Puck. . . . not a mouse 
Shall disturb this hallow’d house : 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act v. Scenes 1 and 2. 
Falstajf. Thou wilt be as valrant as the 
wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse.— 
King Henry IV., Part II. Act iii. Scene 2. 
Westmoreland. Playing the mouse, in absence of 
the cat, 
To spoil and havoc more than she can eat. 
King Henry V., Act i. Scene 2. 
