birds
“deceived with painted grapes,”
VENUS AND ADONIS, 601
;
“Our author alludes to the celebrated picture of Zeuxis,
mentioned by Pliny, in which some grapes were so well represented that birds lighted on
them to peck at them”
(MALONE)
.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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