Again, in Winter’s Tale (Act ii. Sc. 3):—
… “to it own protection.”
And—
“The innocent milk in it most innocent mouth.”
Winters Tale, Act iii. Sc. 2.
THE HEDGE-SPARROW AND CUCKOO.
The popular notion referred to by the poet in King Lear, is again mentioned by Worcester in Henry IV.—
“And, being fed by us, you us’d us so
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo’s bird,[79]
Useth the sparrow; did oppress our nest,