[148] Lucrece, 1009.
[149] Romeo and Juliet, I. ii. 86.
[150] King Lear, IV. vi. 11.
[151] Ibid. 58.
[152] Hamlet, V. ii. 85.
[153] Tempest, II. i. 254. Chaucer’s epithet for the Chough was “the theef.”
[154] All’s Well that Ends Well, IV. i. 19.
[155] Midsummer-Night’s Dream, III. ii. 19. The chough, by association with man, may become a companionable creature. At Ardkinglas, Loch Fyne, Lady Noble has kept for some years a couple of choughs, brought from Ireland, which are at liberty to fly about the woods and hills, but come back to the mansion house for food and attend their mistress or her guests along the pathways. They even come into the house and perch on the hand of any one who has the courage to invite them.
[156] Macbeth, III. iv. 123.
[157] 1 Henry IV. I. iii. 221.