i6o NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Gent. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear 
would couch, 
The lion and the belly-pinched wolf 
Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, 
And bids what will take all. 
King Lear, Act iii. Scene i. 
Posthumus. ... to grin like lions 
Upon the pikes o’ the hunters. 
Cymbeline, Act y. Scene 3. 
Lavinia. Yet have I heard,—oh could I find it 
now !— 
The lion, moved with pity, did endure 
To have his princely paws pared all away. 
Titus Andronicus, Act ii. Scene 3. 
“To see his face the lion walk’d along 
Behind some hedge, because he would not fear him ; 
Venus and Adonis. 
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws, 
Sonnet XIX. 
LIONESS. 
Oliver. . . . . 
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, 
Lay couching, head on ground, with cat-like watch, 
As You Like It, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Bast. . . . (To Austria) Sirrah, were I at 
home, 
At your den, sirrah, with your lioness, 
