Note to As You Like It, 2.7.150: "bearded like the pard"


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bearded like the pard: —"Pard" was a name for any large cat that was not a lion. And the vast majority of people in Shakespeare's time would have known what one looked like only from pictures such as the one below.
Pard in a Medieval Book of Beasts