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Parental Affection: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines Of my boy's face, methought I did recoil Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd, In my green velvet coat; my dagger muzzled, Lest it should bite its master, and so prove As ornaments oft do, too dangerous. W.T You have no children, butchers! if you had, The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse.— H.VI. PT. III. V. 5

And my young boy Hath an aspéct of intercession, which Great nature cries, deny not.— C. V. 3

Unreasonable creatures feed their young: And though man's face be fearful to their eyes, Yet in protection of their tender ones, Who hath not seen them (even with those wings Which sometimes they have us'd with fearful flight) Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest, Offering their own lives in their young's defence?— H. VI. PT. III. ii. 2.