The birds of Shakespeare

by Archibald Geikie

[158] 1 Henry VI. II. iv. 16.

[159] 3 Henry VI. V. vi. 46. Chaucer’s epithet for this bird was “the jangling pye.”

[160] Tempest, II. ii. 158.

[161] Merry Wives, III. iii. 34.

[162] Cymbeline, III. iv. 47.

[163] Taming of the Shrew, IV. iii. 165.

[164] 1 Henry IV. II. i. 15. Chaucer’s reference to the bird is “The cok, that orloge is of thorpes lyte.” Parlement, 350.

[165] Romeo and Juliet, IV. iv. 3.

[166] Tempest, I. ii. 384.

[167] Hamlet, I. i. 147-164.