1 74 NA TURAL HISTOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
POLECAT, MUSKCAT, FITCHEW. 
Evans. What is fair, William ? 
William. Pulcher. 
Quickly. Polecats ! there are fairer things than 
polecats, sure. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iv. Scene i. 
Clown. Here is a pur of fortune’s, sir, or of for¬ 
tune’s cat, (but not a musk-cat,) that has fallen into 
the unclean fish-pond of her displeasure, and as he 
says, is muddied withal: 
All’s Well that Ends Well, Act v. Scene 2. 
Thersites. To be . . . a fitchew, . 
I would not care : 
Troilus and Cressida, Act v. Scene 1. 
OTTER. 
Hostess. Say, what beast, thou knave thou ? 
Falstaff. What beast ? why, an otter! 
Prince Henry. An otter, sir J ohn ! why an otter ? 
Falstaff. Why ? she’s neither fish nor flesh ; 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act iii. Scene 3. 
