Repast them with my blood.”
Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 5.
King Lear, too, likens himself to a pelican when speaking of his ungrateful children:—
“Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers
Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?
Judicious punishment! ’Twas this flesh begot
Those pelican daughters.”
King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 4.
Again—
“K. Richard.····