Of the night-time food-seeking cat

Of the night-time food-seeking cat

Of the night-time food-seeking cat

Of the night-time food-seeking cat, in The Merchant of Venice, old Shylock talks of the

...Slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
More than the wild cat.

In the same play Shylock discourses of those that have a natural horror of certain animals, which holds good till this day:

Some men there are love not a gaping pig,
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat.