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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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VI. iv. iii. 47. ^ Lear, 11. iv. 132. 47 The ^irds of Shakespeare the Parrot and the Ostrich. As one resultof the many voyages of discovery in hisday, both in the Old and the New World,the PARROT had become a familiar bird inEngland. Its loud and harsh clamour,its docility, its clever imitation of humanspeech, but at the best, the paucity ofits vocabulary, are duly noted by ourdramatist. In one scene we are told howFalstafF was pleased to have his pollclawed like a parrot, ^ in another, a ladydeclares that in her jealousy she will be more clamorous than a parrot againstrain. Again we hear of Some that will evermore peep through their eyesAnd laugh like parrots at a bagpiper ; ^ also of an indiscreet officer who in his tipsyfits would speak parrot, and squabble,swagger, swear and discourse fustian withhis own shadow.* Nor must we forgetthe drawer at the Boars Head Tavern in ^ 2 Henry IF. ii. iv. 249. ^ As Tou Like It, iv. i. 134.^ Merchant of Venice, I. \ 52. ^Othello, 11. iii. 270.48
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The Cormoi P. sr Parrots and Popinjays Eastcheap who had only two words ofreply to any call, and of whom the merryPrince remarked, with a sly hit at the fairsex : That ever this fellow should havefewer words than a parrot, and yet the sonof a woman ! ^ The parrot was alsoknown by the name of popinjay, a wordsometimes applied to a foppish dandy.It is used in this sense by Hotspur withreference to A certain lord, neat and trimly dressdFresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin new-reapdShowd like a stubble-land at harvest-home. I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold.To be so pesterd with a popinjay,AnswerM neglectingly I know not what.^ The same word was used of the stuffedbird or other mark set up to be shot at ina competition of marksmanship. Thiskind of sport in archery continues to bekept up in Scotland, or was only recentlyabandoned. It has been described by ^ I Henry IV. ii. iv. 95. ^ i Henrj IV. \. iii. 33-52.G 49 The ^irds of Shakespeare Scott in Old Mortality. I have myselfat

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