Grilled Cheese

ExploreLog inSign up
Terms of UsePrivacy PolicyCommunity StandardsHelpGet the app

Grilled Cheese is a product of Village Compute

Version devBuilt at: 2026-10-13 03:52:57 EDT

Explore

PostsPeople
LatestRanked
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 8:06 AM

“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”

#Bardspotting #Ostrich #Eagle

SIR RICHARD VERNON
King Henry IV, Part One
Act IV, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Henry IV Part One. Text reads “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” An ostrich giving you the side eye at the suggestion of being “all plumed”An eagle coming in to pick up its prey (not shown) with talons and wings outstretched
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 8:03 AM

“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.”

#Bardspotting #Pigeon #Parrot

ROSALIND
As You Like It
Act IV, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play As You Like It. Text reads “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.”A Barbary pigeon in its finery within a spacious wire cage and stood on sand. A green parrot perched on a mossy branch expecting more rain today.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 8:12 AM

“Let the birds fly and like the famous ape
To try conclusions in the basket creep
And break your own neck down.”

#Bardspotting #Birds

Hamlet
HAMLET
Act III, Scene 4

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Hamlet. Text reads “Let the birds fly and like the famous ape To try conclusions in the basket creep And break your own neck down.”A bird, mid-flight, wings outstretched. It seems to be looking at an ape in a basket falling to the ground (not shown)
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:56 AM

“The crows and chough that wing the midway air
Show scarce so gross as beetles.”

#Bardspotting #Crows #Choughs

EDGAR
King Lear
Act IV, Scene 6

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Lear. Text reads “The crows and chough that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles.”A crow with its beak open stands on a patch of grass in front of some shrubs. A red-beaked chough stands on a rock.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 8:39 AM

“‘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

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. Text reads “‘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.”A falcon, coming into her prey (not shown) with a forest behind her. An owl, possibly thinking about a mouse, whilst cocking its head to one side.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 7:41 AM

“Which pries not to th’ interior, but like the martlet
Builds in the weather on the outward wall”

#Bardspotting #Swift

ARRAGON
The Merchant Of Venice
Act II, Scene 9

Arden notes, martlet] swift, often confused with the swallow and house-martin.

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Merchant Of Venice. Text reads “Which pries not to th’ interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall”A swift, not to be confused with a swallow nor the four band members from Hull.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 6:47 AM

“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.”

#Bardspotting #Lark

EDGAR
King Lear
Act IV, Scene 6

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Lear. Text reads “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.”The shrill-gorged lark that can be seen.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 8:01 AM

“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”

#Bardspotting #Eagle

EARL OF WARWICK
King Henry VI, Part Three
Act V, Scene 2

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Henry VI Part Three. Text reads “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”A princely eagle awaits its principality.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 8:02 AM

“You may wear her in title yours, but you know strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.”

#Bardspotting #Fowl

IACHIMO
Cymbeline
Act I, Scene 4

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Cymbeline. Text reads “You may wear her in title yours, but you know strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.”A duck submerged head first in a neighbouring pond.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 7:55 AM

“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

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Love’s Labour’s Lost. Text reads “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”Two turtle doves not in a tree but a top a wallA rook high up in a bare tree topA jackdaw wondering where it left its summer smock.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 13, 2026, 8:20 AM

“Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows
And be a boy right out.”

#Bardspotting #Sparrow

IRIS
The Tempest
Act IV, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Tempest. Text reads “Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows And be a boy right out.”A sparrow on an old gatepost waiting to play with Cupid now he’s broken all his arrows.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 9:05 AM

“As confident as is the falcon’s flight
Against a bird do I with Mowbray fight.”

#Bardspotting #Falcon

BOLINGBROKE
King Richard II
Act I, Scene 3

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play King Richard II. Text reads “As confident as is the falcon’s flight Against a bird do I with Mowbray fight.”A falcon on a thin branch not looking for a fight at all thank you very much.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 7:50 AM

“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.”

#Bardspotting #Dove

FLORIZEL
The Winter’s Tale
Act IV, Scene 4

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Winter’s Tale. Text reads “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.”Two white doves and a red brick wall.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 8:27 AM

“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

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Sir Thomas More. Text reads “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.”A gull on a beach showing off his intelligence to another gull that looks less than impressedA duck walking toward the camera over grass wondering why you would think it was a widgeon A rapacious member of the crow family in a bare tree top wondering why you don’t just call it a rook.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 7:40 AM

PETRUCCIO
O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee?

KATHERINA
Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.

#Bardspotting #Dove #Buzzard

The Taming Of The Shrew
Act II, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Taming Of The Shrew. The text reads PETRUCCIO O slow-winged turtle, shall a buzzard take thee? KATHERINA Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard. A turtle dove, sat peacefully on a branch, certainly not looking to take out a buzzard any time soon. A buzzard, mid-flight, wings back and talons outstretched, as if to say to any doves “I’d like to see you try it mate”
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 7:49 AM

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape till custom make it
Their perch, and not their terror.”

#Bardspotting #BirdsOfPrey

ANGELO
Measure For Measure
Act II, Scene 1

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Measure For Measure. Text reads “We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.”A bird of prey, talons ready to seize something small and furry on the ground beneath it.
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 8:20 AM

“None, sir. I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.”

#Bardspotting #Pheasant #Cockerel #Hen

SHEPHERD
The Winter’s Tale
Act IV, Scene 4

NB: Arden notes the ‘Bribing judges with game or poultry was commonplace (cf. capon justice)’

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play The Winter’s Tale. Text reads “None, sir. I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.”The pheasant in yellow-brown grass. It does not belong to the Shepherd. A cockerel on a tree stump in a field. It does not belong to the ShepherdA hen, that does not belong to the Shepherd
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 8:38 AM

“The crow, the sland’rous cuckoo, nor
The boding raven, nor chough hoar,
Nor chatt’ring ’pie,
May on our bride-house perch or sing,
Or with them any discord bring,
But from it fly.”

#Bardspotting #Crow #Cuckoo #Raven #Chough #Magpie

SONG
Two Noble Kinsmen
Act I, Scene 1

@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 8:21 AM

“Fair was the morn when the fair Queen of love,
Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove,
For Adon’s sake, a youngster proud and wild,
Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill.”

#Bardspotting #Dove

THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
Shakespeare’s Poems
Verse IX, Lines 1-4

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare poem The Passionate Pilgrim. Text reads “Fair was the morn when the fair Queen of love, Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, For Adon’s sake, a youngster proud and wild, Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill.”Two milk-white doves atop a ledge
@bookamatic.bsky.socialSep 3, 2026, 7:45 AM

“Thou art like the harpy,
Which to betray dost use thine angel’s face
To seize with thine eagle’s talons.”

#Bardspotting #Eagle

CLEON
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Act IV, Scene 4

Highlighted text from the William Shakespeare play Pericles. Text reads “Thou art like the harpy, Which to betray dost use thine angel’s face To seize with thine eagle’s talons.”An eagle in mid-flight, wings outstretched and talons ready to grab.