When I did hear / The motley fool, thus moral on the time, / My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, / That fools should be so deep-contemplative[…].

There are doubtlessly more insects than mammals.

A common kind of alehouse sign — not a brand name like the Sun and Moon (which existed in Aldersgate, London, in Shakespeare's day), but a generic sign identifying the type of business conducted within — was an ale pole.

A cool breeze began to blow, carrying on it the undulating notes of a bansuri from some village downriver.