Chapter L: Act IV: SCENE 1. Page 130

ROS. I will laugh like a _hyen_, and that when thou art inclined to
_sleep_.

"He commeth to houses _by night_, and feineth _mannes voyce_ as he maye," &c.--Bartholomæus _De propriet. rer._ lib. xviii. c. 61. _De Hiena_.

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OLI ... for 'tis
The royal disposition of that beast,
To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead.

This property of the lion, whether true or false, was acknowledged by our forefathers. Thus in "_The choise of change containing the divinitie, philosophie, and poetrie_," &c., 1585, 4to, a work evidently constructed on the model of the Welsh triads, we find the following passage: "three things shew that there is a great clemencie in lions; _they will not hurt them that lie groveling_," &c. Bartholomæus says, "their mercie is known by many and oft ensamples: _for they spare them that lye on the ground_." Shakspeare again alludes to the lion's generosity in _Troilus and Cressida_, Act V. Scene 3:

"Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you
Which better fits a lion than a man."