4), it furnishes an epithet applied by the abusive tongue of Doll Tearsheet, to the beadle who had her in custody. Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hearīlue-bottle.-This well-known insect has often been used as a term of reproach. "Why, look you, I am whipp’d and scourged with rods, 1), the Duke of York's reflection on the destruction of his hopes, is. 3), Bolingbroke speaks of "the caterpillars of the commonweath," and in "2 Henry VI." (iii. In numerous cases, also, the peculiarities of certain natural objects have furnished the poet with many excellent metaphors. Whether life or nature be his subject, Shakespeare shows plainly that he has seen with his own eyes." So, too, he was in the habit of taking minute observation of the popular notions relating to natural history, so many of which he has introduced into his plays-using them to no small advantage. Thiselton Dyer,, at Īs Dr Johnson has truly remarked, Shakespeare is "the poet of nature," for "his attention was not confined to the actions of men he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world his descriptions have always some peculiarity, gathered by contemplating things as they really exist. Sacred Texts Shakespeare Index Previous Nextįolk-lore of Shakespeare, by T.F.
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