LIKE.—No more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (The same Soliloquy.)
Very like a whale.
Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To Polonius.)
Like Patience on a monument, smiling at Grief.
Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 4. (Viola to the Duke.)
All flesh consorteth according to kind, and a man will cleave to his like.
Ecclesiasticus.—Chap XIII. Verse 16.
The birds will resort unto their like.
Ecclesiasticus.—Chap XXVII. Verse 9.
Cicala is dear to cicala, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks.
Bank’s Theocritus.—Idyll IX. Page 52.