166 NA TURAL HIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE . 
Prince of Morocco. Pluck the young sucking cubs 
from the she-bear, 
Merchant of Venice, Act ii. Scene i. 
Clown. . . . And then for the land-service,— 
to see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone; how 
he cried to me for help, and said his name was 
Antigonus, a nobleman.— .... how the poor 
gentleman roared, and the bear mocked him, 
A Winter’s Tale, Act iii. Scene 3. 
Orlea7is . Foolish curs ! that run winking into the 
mouth of a Russian bear, 
King Henry V., Act iii. Scene 7. 
York. Call hither to the stake my two brave bears, 
That, with the very shaking of their chains, 
They may astonish these fell lurking curs; 
King Henry VI., Part II. Act v. Scene 1. 
Antony. Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish: 
A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 
Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv. Scene 12. 
Alexander. . . . churlish as the bear, 
Troilus and Cressida, Act i. Scene 2. 
Othello. 
out of a bear ! 
O, she will sing the savageness 
Othello, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Brutus. He’s a lamb, indeed, that baes like a bear. 
Menenius. He’s a bear, indeed, that lives like a 
lamb. 
Coriolanus, Act ii. Scene 1. 
