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Timon. . . . wert thou a bear, thou wouldst 
be killed by the horse ; 
Timon of Athens, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Juliet. O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, 
From off the battlements of yonder tower ; 
. . . . chain me with roaring bears; 
Romeo and Juliet, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Fool. . . . Horses are tied by the heads; 
dogs and bears by the neck; 
King Lear, Act ii. Scene 4. 
WOLF. 
Don Pedro. Good morrow, masters ; put your 
torches out: 
The wolves have prey’d : and look, the gentle day, 
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about 
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray; 
Much Ado about Nothing, Act v. Scene 3. 
Gratiano. Thou almost mak’st me waver in my 
faith, 
To hold opinion with Pythagoras, 
That souls of animals infuse themselves 
Into the trunks of men : thy currish spirit 
Governed a wolf, 
Merchant of Venice, Act iv. Scene 1. 
Antigonus. —Come on, poor babe : 
Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens 
To be thy nurses ! Wolves and bears, they say, 
Casting their savageness aside, have done 
Like offices of pity.— 
A Winter’s Tale, Act ii. Scene 3. 
