“This outward-sainted deputy,
Whose settl’d visage and deliberate word
Nips youth i’ th’ head and follies doth enew
As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil:”
ISABELLA
Measure For Measure
Act III, Scene 1

“This outward-sainted deputy,
Whose settl’d visage and deliberate word
Nips youth i’ th’ head and follies doth enew
As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil:”
ISABELLA
Measure For Measure
Act III, Scene 1
“The throstle* with his note so true,
The wren with little quill.”
BOTTOM
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Act III, Scene 1
*throstle - Arden notes, thrush.
“I’ th’ city of kites and crows? What an ass it is! Then thou dwell’st with daws too?”
#Bardspotting #Kites #Crows #Jackdaws
3RD SERVINGMAN
Coriolanus
Act IV, Scene 5
“If he paid for them, let it suffice that I possess them. Beefs and brewis* may serve such hinds. Are pigeons meat for a coarse carpenter?”
CAVALER
Sir Thomas More
Act I
*brewis - Arden notes is bread soaked in broth
“Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere I part you. The falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i’ the river. Go to, go to.”
PANDARUS
Troilus And Cressida
Act III, Scene 2
“All furnished, all in arms,
All plumed like ostriches, that with the wind
Bated like eagles having lately bathed,
Glittering in golden coats like images
As full of spirit as the month of May”
SIR RICHARD VERNON
King Henry IV, Part One
Act IV, Scene 1
“I will be more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen, more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey.”
ROSALIND
As You Like It
Act IV, Scene 1
“Let the birds fly and like the famous ape
To try conclusions in the basket creep
And break your own neck down.”
Hamlet
HAMLET
Act III, Scene 4
“The crows and chough that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles.”
EDGAR
King Lear
Act IV, Scene 6
“‘Tis unnatural,
Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last,
A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at, and kill’d.”
#Bardspotting #Falcon #Owl #Hawk
OLD MAN
Macbeth
Act II, Scene 4
“Which pries not to th’ interior, but like the martlet
Builds in the weather on the outward wall”
ARRAGON
The Merchant Of Venice
Act II, Scene 9
Arden notes, martlet] swift, often confused with the swallow and house-martin.
“From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.
Look up a-height: the shrill-gorged lark so far
Cannot be seen or heard. Do but look up.”
EDGAR
King Lear
Act IV, Scene 6
“Thus yields the cedar to the axe’s edge
Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,
Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,
Whose top branch overpeered Jove’s spreading tree”
EARL OF WARWICK
King Henry VI, Part Three
Act V, Scene 2
“You may wear her in title yours, but you know strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.”
IACHIMO
Cymbeline
Act I, Scene 4
“When shepherds pipe on oaten straws
And merry larks are ploughman’s clocks,
When turtles tread and rooks and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer smocks”
#Bardspotting #Doves #Rooks #Jackdaws
SONG/DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Act V, Scene 2
“Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows
And be a boy right out.”
IRIS
The Tempest
Act IV, Scene 1
“As confident as is the falcon’s flight
Against a bird do I with Mowbray fight.”
BOLINGBROKE
King Richard II
Act I, Scene 3
“I take thy hand, this hand
As soft as dove’s down and as white as it,
Or Ethiopian’s tooth, or the fanned snow that’s bolted
By th’northern blasts twice o’er.”
FLORIZEL
The Winter’s Tale
Act IV, Scene 4
“But let them gull me, widgeon me, rook me, fop me,
I’faith, i’faith, they are too short for me.
Knaves and fools meet when purses go.”
#Bardspotting #Gull #Widgeon #Rook
SURESBY
Sir Thomas More
Act II
Gull - an unfledged bird
Widgeon - stupid, wild duck
Rook - rapacious crow
PETRUCCIO
O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?
KATHERINA
Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.
The Taming Of The Shrew
Act II, Scene 1