[147] _Romeo and Juliet_, I. v. 45. [148] _Lucrece_, 1009. [149] _Romeo and Juliet_, I. ii. 86. [150] _King Lear_, IV. vi. 11. [151] _Ibid._ 58. [152] _Hamlet_, V. ii. 85. [153] _Tempest_, II. i. 254. Chaucer’s epithet for the Chough was “the theef.” [154] _All’s Well that Ends Well_, IV. i. 19. [155] _Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, III. ii. 19. The chough, by association with man, may become a companionable creature. At Ardkinglas, Loch Fyne, Lady Noble has kept for some years a couple of choughs, brought from Ireland, which are at liberty to fly about the woods and hills, but come back to the mansion house for food and attend their mistress or her guests along the pathways. They even come into the house and perch on the hand of any one who has the courage to invite them. [156] _Macbeth_, III. iv. 123. [157] _1 Henry IV._ I. iii. 221. [158] _1 Henry VI._ II. iv. 16. [159] _3 Henry VI._ V. vi. 46. Chaucer’s epithet for this bird was “the jangling pye.” [160] _Tempest_, II. ii. 158. [161] _Merry Wives_, III. iii. 34. [162] _Cymbeline_, III. iv. 47. [163] _Taming of the Shrew_, IV. iii. 165. [164] _1 Henry IV._ II. i. 15. Chaucer’s reference to the bird is “The cok, that orloge is of thorpes lyte.” _Parlement_, 350. [165] _Romeo and Juliet_, IV. iv. 3. [166] _Tempest_, I. ii. 384. [167] _Hamlet_, I. i. 147-164. [168] _Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, III. ii. 20. [169] _King Lear_, II. iv. 45. [170] _As You Like It_, II. vii. 86. [171] _Romeo and Juliet_, II. iv. 69. [172] _Cymbeline_, III. iv. 138. [173] _1 Henry IV._ V. iii. 56. [174] _Titus Andronicus_, IV. ii. 101. [175] _Antony and Cleopatra_, III. ii. 48. [176] _3 Henry VI._ I. iv. 19. [177] _Lucrece_, 1611. Chaucer had already chronicled “the jalous swan, ayens his deth that singeth.” _Parlement of Foules_, 342. [178] _King John_, V. vii. 20. [179] _Othello_, V. ii. 249. [180] _Merchant of Venice_, III. ii. 43. [181] V. i. 14. [182] _Twelfth Night_, II. v. 28. [183] _1 Henry IV._ II. i. 25. [184] _1 Henry VI._ III. iii. 5. Chaucer refers to The pecock, with his aungels fethres brighte. [185] _Troilus and Cressida_, III. iii. 244. [186] _King Henry V._ IV. i. 195. [187] _Comedy of Errors_, IV. iii. 74. [188] _Venus and Adonis_, 1190. [189] _Merchant of Venice_, II. vi. 5. [190] _2 Henry IV._ V. i. 25. [191] _Merchant of Venice_, II. ii. 123. [192] _3 Henry VI._ II. ii. 17. [193] _Antony and Cleopatra_, III. xiii. 196. [194] _3 Henry VI._ I. iv. 40. [195] Chaucer’s phrase is: The wedded turtel, with hir herte trewe. _Parlement_, 355.