[94] Lear, III. iv. 71.
[95] Macbeth, V. iii. 11.
[96] IV. vi. 17.
[97] II. iii. 82.
[98] Thus in the song of the “Ewie wi’ the crooked horn” the knave that did the mischief is thus maledicted:
O had I but the loon that did it,
I hae sworn as well as said it,
Though the parson should forbid it
I wad gie his neck a thraw.
[99] Hamlet, IV. v. 40.