ITS PREDATORY HABITS.
Throughout the Plays we meet with frequent allusions to the crow, and its partiality for carrion. In the fifth act of Cymbeline a scene is laid in a field between the British and Roman camps, where the following dialogue takes place:—
“British Captain. Stand! who’s there?
Posthumus. A Roman,
Who had not now been drooping here, if seconds
Had answer’d him.
British Captain. Lay hands on him; a dog!
A leg of Rome shall not return to tell
What crows have peck’d them here.”
Cymbeline, Act v. Sc. 3.