[202] Sir W. Raleigh’s “History of the World,” bk. i. pt. i. ch. 6.
[203] Strutt’s “Sports and Pastimes,” 1876, p. 329.
[204] There is an allusion to the proverbial saying, “Brag is a good dog, but Hold-fast is a better.”
[205] In the same scene we are told,
“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.”
Cf. “Romeo and Juliet,” iii. 5; “Richard II.,” iii. 3.
[206] Quoted by Harting, in “Ornithology of Shakespeare,” p. 24.
[207] Kelly’s “Indo-European Folk-Lore,” pp. 75, 79.
[208] Cf. “Antony and Cleopatra,” ii. 2: “This was but as a fly by an eagle.”
[209] Josephus, “De Bello Judico,” iii. 5.