200 NATURAL HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE . 
SNAIL. 
Luciana . . . . thou snail, 
Comedy of Errors, Act ii. Scene 2. 
1st Fairy. Worm, nor snail, do no offence. 
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act ii. Scene 2. 
Biron . Love’s feeling is more soft, and sensible, 
Than are the tender horns of cockled snails, 
Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act iv. Scene 3. 
Jaqnes. . . . . 
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school : 
Rosalind ' Nay, an you be so. tardy, come no more 
in my sight; I had as lief be wooed of a snail. 
Orlando. Of a snail ? 
Rosalind. Ay, of a snail; for though he comes 
slowly, he carries his house on his head ; a better 
jointure, I think, than you make a woman : besides, 
he brings his destiny with him. 
Orlando. What’s that? 
Rosalind. Why, horns ; 
As You Like It, Act ii. Scene 7 ; 
Act iv. Scene 1. 
Nestor. And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for 
shame.— 
Troilus and Cressida, Act v. Scene 5. 
