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Title: The birds of Shakespeare
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Geikie, Archibald, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Birds in literature
Publisher: Glasgow, J. Maclehose and sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ung.^^ I Henry VI. ii. iv. i6. 2 3 Henry VI. v. vi. 46. Chaucers epithet for this birdwas the jangling pye. 79 The ^irds of Shakespeare The JAY is referred to five times byShakespeare. In the enchanted isle CaHbanoffers to guide the drunken Trinculo andSebastian to some of the dainties of theplace : I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts:Show thee a jays nest, and instruct thee howTo snare the nimble marmoset.^ The name of the bird is used as an uncom-plimentary epithet for some women, aswhere Mrs. Ford, in reference to Falstaffsaddresses, declares well teach him toknow turtles from jays,^ and whereImogen affirmed, Some jay of Italy hathbetrayed him.^ But perhaps the mostinteresting appearance of the bird in thePlays occurs in the scene of the Tamingof the Shrew^ where after the tailor hasbeen sent about his business, taking withhim the cap and gown which had beenordered for Katharine, and with which she ^Tempest, ii. ii. 158. ^Merry Wives^ in. iii. 34.^ Cymbeline, in. iv. 47. 80
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The Starling p. 78 ^irds of the Farm-yard was well pleased, her husband addresses her thus : Well, come, my Kate ; we will unto your fathersEven in these honest mean habiliments :Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;For tis the mind that makes the body rich ;And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,So honour peereth in the meanest habit.What is the jay more precious than the larkBecause his feathers are more beautiful ?Or is the adder better than the eel.Because his painted skin contents the eye ? ^ The various Birds of the Farm-yardhave received due attention from the greatdramatist. Chief among them, the cockis frequently cited, especially as a recog-nised chronometer of the morning hours,for in Elizabethan days this mode ofindicating time had not gone out ofpopular use. We all remember the un-happy experience of the carrier in theinn at Rochester since the first cock.^ 1 Taming of the ShrezVf iv. iii. 165. 2 I Henry IV. 11. i. 15. Chaucers reference to the birdis Th

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