. The birds of Shakespeare . with equalsarcasm, adds : So doth the cony struggle in the net.^Ophelia, when cross-questioned by her ^ 3 Henry VI. i. iv. 6i. 63 The ^irds of Shakespeare father as to the attentions paid to her by Hamlet, answers how the Prince Hath given countenance to his speechWith almost all the holy vows of heaven ; whereupon Polonius abruptly breaks inwith the unfeeling comment : Ay, springes to catch woodcocks ; I do know.^ Again, in the tricking of Malvolio, asthe steward picks up the letter, Fabian,from the lurking-place where Sir Tobyand he are watching every movement,ex
. The birds of Shakespeare . with equalsarcasm, adds : So doth the cony struggle in the net.^Ophelia, when cross-questioned by her ^ 3 Henry VI. i. iv. 6i. 63 The ^irds of Shakespeare father as to the attentions paid to her by Hamlet, answers how the Prince Hath given countenance to his speechWith almost all the holy vows of heaven ; whereupon Polonius abruptly breaks inwith the unfeeling comment : Ay, springes to catch woodcocks ; I do know.^ Again, in the tricking of Malvolio, asthe steward picks up the letter, Fabian,from the lurking-place where Sir Tobyand he are watching every movement,exclaims Now is the woodcock near the gin.^ The PHEASANT is only once mentionedby Shakespeare, and in a ludicrous the Shepherd and the Clown inThe Winter s Tale are accosted by Autoly-cus on their errand to the king, thefollowing conversation ensues : Aut. I command thee to open thy affair.^hep. My business, sir, is to the What advocate hast thou to him ? 1 Hamlet, i. iii. 115. ^ Twelfth Night, 11. v. 77. 64. The Lapwing p. 67 The T^heasant and T^artridge Shep. I know not, ant like you. Clown [aside] Advocates the court-word for a phea-sant : say you have none—•Shep, None, sir ; I have no pheasant, cock nor How blessed are we that are not simple men ! Yet nature might have made me as these are ; Therefore I will not disdain.^ We find the partridge referred totwice in the dramas, once as part ofthe game in a puttocks nest, in thepassage already cited, and the secondtime in the encounter of wit betweenBeatrice and Benedick at the maskedball when she, pretending not to recog-nise him, heaps all manner of ridiculeupon him, ending with the taunt that ifhe should hear what she has been sayingabout him. Hell but break a comparison or two on me ;which peradventure not marked or not laughedat, strikes him into melancholy ; and theres apartridge wing saved, for the fool will eat nosupper that night.^ ^ Winter^s Tale, iv. iv. 727.^Much Ado about Nothing, 11.
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