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PEACOCKS [ Also see Animals Birds ] For everything seemed resting on his nod,   As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,     Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,       To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,         Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad           (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,)             With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt               How power could condescend to do without.       - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),         Don Juan (canto VII, st. 74) To frame the little animal, provide   All the gay hues that wait on female pride:     Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire       The shining belles of the fly require;         The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,           Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.       - John Gay, Rural Sports (canto I, l. 177) To Paradise, the Arabs say,   Satan could never find the way     Until the peacock led him in.       - Charles Godfrey Leland, The Peacock Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while   And like a peacock sweep along his tail;     We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,       If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.       - William Shakespeare,         King Henry the Sixth, Part I          (Pucelle at III, iii) Fly pride, says the peacock: mistress, that you know.       - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors          (Dromio of Syracuse at IV, iii) Why, 'a stalks up and down like a peacock--a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say, 'There were wit in this head an 'twould out'; and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without knocking.       - William Shakespeare,         The History of Troilus and Cressida          (Thersites at III, iii) And there they placed a peacock in his pride,   Before the damsel.       - Lord Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner. Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Last Revised: 2018 December 13 Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.

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