Jacques. "Well, then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you; but
that they call compliment is like the encounter of two dog-apes," &c.
As You Like It. Act ii., Scene 5.
Id. Act hi., Scene 3.
Id. Act iv., Scene 1.
"What! will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see
She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day,
And for your love to her, lead Apes in hell."
Taming of the Shrew. Act ii., Scene 1.
"I know this man well: he hath been since an Ape-bearer."
The Winter's Tale. Act iv., Scene 2.
Id. Act v., Scene 2.
"Out, you mad-headed Ape!
A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen,
As you are tossed with."
King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii., Scene 3.
"And the boy that I gave Falstaff: he had him from me Christian;
and look, if the fat villain bath not transformed him Ape."
Henry IV. Part II. Act ii., Scene 2.
The Ape is mentioned upwards of thirty times in the plays of Shakspeare; but it is unnecessary to give more than one other reference, viz., that in which the cheek-pouch is referred to.
Hamlet. "Ay, sir; that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards,
his authorities. But such officers do the King best service in the end: he
keeps them like an Ape doth nuts, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed
to be last swallowed," &c.
Hamlet. Act iv., Scene 2.
The Baboon, Cynocephalus sp.?
Falstaff. "Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my
countenance to pawn: I have grated upon my good friends for three
reprieves for you and your coach-fellow, Nym; or else you had looked
through the grate, like a gemini of Baboons."
Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii., Scene 2.
Falstaff. "He a good wit! hang him, Baboon! his wit is as thick as
Tewksbury mustard: there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet."
Henry IV. Part II. Act ii., Scene 4.
Timon of Athens. Act i., Scene 1.
