“Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar
Above the morning lark.”
Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Sc. 2.
In Henry V. (Act iii. Sc. 7), the Dauphin, when speaking in praise of his horse, says,—
“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk.”
And in the first part of Henry VI. (Act ii. Sc. 4), the Earl of Warwick boasts that
“Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;
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I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment.”
Again,—