The birds of Shakespeare

by Archibald Geikie

[215] 1 Henry IV. III. i. 260.

[216] King Lear, I. iv. 214.

[217] Troilus and Cressida, V. i. 34.

[218] Hamlet, V. ii. 212.

[219] As You Like It, II. iii. 44.

[220] Tempest, IV. i. 99.

[221] Troilus and Cressida, II. i. 67.

[222] Chaucer regarded this bird from another point of view:—

The swalow, mordrer of the flyës smale

That maken hony of floures fresshe of hewe.