human
Good king of cats, &c., will you pluck your sword out of his _pilcher_ by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out.
gpt
Pitchers have ears, of which he has elsewhere twice availed himself. The _ears_, as every one knows, are the _handles_, which have since been called the _lugs_. Shakspeare would hardly have substituted a word of his own creation for _scabbard_; but _pitcher_ was suggested by the play upon the word _ears_, which is used for _hilts_ in the plural, according to the universal usage of the poet's time. The _ears_, applied to a _leathern coat_, or even a _sheath_, would be quite unmeaning, but there is a well sustained ludicrous image in