The birds of Shakespeare

by Archibald Geikie

[168] Midsummer-Night’s Dream, III. ii. 20.

[169] King Lear, II. iv. 45.

[170] As You Like It, II. vii. 86.

[171] Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 69.

[172] Cymbeline, III. iv. 138.

[173] 1 Henry IV. V. iii. 56.

[174] Titus Andronicus, IV. ii. 101.

[175] Antony and Cleopatra, III. ii. 48.

[176] 3 Henry VI. I. iv. 19.

[177] Lucrece, 1611. Chaucer had already chronicled “the jalous swan, ayens his deth that singeth.” Parlement of Foules, 342.