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deer: in Lr. III. iv. 142 “mice and rats and such small deer,” a line from the old romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton is echoed, where ‘deer’ has the old sense of ‘beasts’, ‘animals’; but S. no doubt associated the word with the object of the chase.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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