K. Hen. The bird that hath been limed in a bush,

With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush;

[15] And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,

Have now the fatal object in my eye

[♦] Where my poor young was limed, was caught and kill’d.

Glou. Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete,

That taught his son the office of a fowl!

20 And yet, for all his wings, the fool was drown’d.

[♦] K. Hen. I, Dædalus; my poor boy, Icarus;

Thy father, Minos, that denied our course;