214 NA TURAL BIS TOR Y OF SHAKESPEARE. 
Came here to make us merry; and thou hast kill’d 
him. 
Titus Andronicus, Act iii. Scene 2. 
Lady Macduff. Sirrah, your father’s dead ; 
And what will you do now ? How will you live ? 
Son. As birds do, mother. 
Lady Macduff. What, with worms and flies ? 
Macbeth, Act iv. Scene 2. 
FLEA. 
Mrs. Ford. If you find a man there, he shall die a 
flea’s death. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iv. Scene 2. 
Petrucio. Thou flea, 
Taming of the Shrew, Act iv. Scene 2. 
2 d Carrier. I think this is the most villanous 
house in all London road for fleas : 
King Henry IV., Part I. Act ii. Scene 1. 
Boy. Do you not remember, ’a saw a flea stick 
upon Bardolph’s nose ; 
Orleans. •- that’s a valiant flea, that dare eat 
his breakfast on the lip of a lion. 
King Henry V., Act ii. Scene 3 ; 
Act iii. Scene 7. 
