William Shakespeare on Pets
1564–1616 England
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Cry 'Havoc!,' and let slip the dogs of war.
Julius Caesar (1599)
O, ’tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies!
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
King Lear (1608)
The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
King Lear (1608)
What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god!
Hamlet (1600)
One that I brought up of a puppy; one that I saved from drowning when three or four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it.
He thrusts me himself into the company of three or four gentleman-like dogs under the Duke’s table; he had not been there a pissing-while but all the chamber smelt him. “Out with the dog!” says one; “What cur is that?” says another; “Whip him out”, says the third; “Hang him up”, says the Duke.