Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly![[4]]
(As You Like It.)
Turning again to comparisons, we find birds used abundantly:
More pity that the eagle should be mewed
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
(Richard III.)
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings.
(Richard III.)
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort