It was the moaning croon of the bird from the high elms that dwelt in Virgil’s memory. [196] _1 Henry VI._ II. ii. 30. [197] IV. iv. 154. [198] _Love’s Labour’s Lost_, V. ii. 315. [199] _Hamlet_, II. ii. 572. [200] _Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, III. i. 114. [201] _Venus and Adonis_, 853. [202] _Troilus and Cressida_, IV. ii. 8. [203] II. iii. 19. [204] _Romeo and Juliet_, III. v. 1-32. [205] _2 Henry IV._ III. ii. 7. I have heard in East Lothian a remarkably dark-complexioned child called “a blacket ouzel.” [206] _Winter’s Tale_, IV. iii. 9. [207] _Macbeth_, IV. ii. 8. [208] _Cymbeline_, IV. ii. 304. [209] _Merchant of Venice_, V. i. 104. [210] _2 Henry VI._ III. ii. 42. [211] _King Lear_, II. ii. 59. [212] II. v. 5. [213] _Cymbeline_, IV. ii. 219. Chaucer speaks of “the tame ruddock.” [214] _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, II. i. 16. [215] _1 Henry IV._ III. i. 260. [216] _King Lear_, I. iv. 214. [217] _Troilus and Cressida_, V. i. 34. [218] _Hamlet_, V. ii. 212. [219] _As You Like It_, II. iii. 44. [220] _Tempest_, IV. i. 99. [221] _Troilus and Cressida_, II. i. 67. [222] Chaucer regarded this bird from another point of view:―― The swalow, mordrer of the flyës smale That maken hony of floures fresshe of hewe. _Parlement_, 353. [223] _Richard III._ V. ii. 23. [224] _Titus Andronicus_, II. ii. 23. [225] _2 Henry IV._ IV. iii. 31. [226] _Winter’s Tale_, IV. iv. 118. [227] _Timon of Athens_, III. vi. 29. [228] _Merchant of Venice_, II. ix. 28. [229] _Macbeth_, I. vi. 3. [230] _Passionate Pilgrim_, xxi. [231] _Lucrece_, 1079. [232] _Sonnet_, cii. [233] _Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, II. ii. 13. [234] _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, III. i. 178, V. iv. 1. [235] _Taming of the Shrew_, Induction, Scene ii. 33. [236] _Midsummer-Night’s Dream_, I. ii. 72. [237] _Merchant of Venice_, V. i. 102. Index. Arden, Forest of, 14, 16, 18. _As You Like It_, scenery of, 13. Autumn and Bird-life, 24. Birds, varied attractions of, 1; modes of capture of, 9-12; at different seasons, 23; list of Shakespeare’s, 28; of prey, 30; of the Crow family, 69; of the Farmyard, 81. Blackbird, 96. Bunting, 99. Buzzard, 42. Chaucer, his love of Nature, 2; his delight in birds, 3, 4; on the Nightingale, 5; on the Eagle, 31; on the Falcon, 39; on the Kite, 43; on the Owl, 58; on the Lapwing, 67; on the Chough, 76; on the Magpie, 79; on the Cock, 81; on the Swan, 86; on the Peacock, 89; on the Turtle-dove, 92; on the Swallow, 103. Chough, 74. Cock, 81.