"And as the butcher takes away the calf,
And binds the wretch and beats it when it strays,
Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house" (II. iii. I)
"Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh,
And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,
But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter" (II. iii. 2).
"Holland. And Dick the butcher.
"Bevis. Then is sin struck down like an ox and
iniquity's throat cut like a calf."
(II. iv. 2).
"Cade. They fell before thee like sheep and oxen,
and thou behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine
own slaughter-house." (II. iv. 3).
"So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece,
And next his throat unto the butcher's knife." (III. v. 6).
In As You Like It (ii. 2) Rosalind says, using a simile drawn from the same trade: "This way will I take upon me to wash your liver clean as a sound sheep's heart, that there shall be not one spot of love in it."
See Alfred C. Calmon, who in Fact and Fiction about Shakespeare has been very successful in pointing out the numerous reminiscences of Stratford to be found in Shakespeare's plays.