The birds of Shakespeare

by Archibald Geikie

It was the moaning croon of the bird from the high elms that dwelt in Virgil’s memory.

[196] 1 Henry VI. II. ii. 30.

[197] IV. iv. 154.

[198] Love’s Labour’s Lost, V. ii. 315.

[199] Hamlet, II. ii. 572.

[200] Midsummer-Night’s Dream, III. i. 114.

[201] Venus and Adonis, 853.

[202] Troilus and Cressida, IV. ii. 8.

[203] II. iii. 19.

[204] Romeo and Juliet, III. v. 1-32.