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248 Such gallant chiding, for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder."

In a notice of the quadrupeds mentioned by Shakspeare, some allusion should be made to the marine Mammalia. Whales are often mentioned; sometimes as the "huge leviathans" (Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act in., Scene 2), but it will be sufficient to give a couple of quotations and identify the species referred to as—

The following apt simile occurs in Pericles (Act ii., Scene 1):—

Of course poor Falstaff could not escape the opprobrious epithet of "whale." Mrs. Ford asks —

We often find the mythical "mermaid" associated with such friends as the seals and dolphins; so Shakspeare says, through Oberon—