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The title of this episode is lifted from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: "now the hungry lion roars, now the wolf behowls the moon."
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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V. i.379 (104,2) [And the wolf beholds the moon] [W: behowls] The alteration is better than the original reading; but perhaps the author meant only to say, that the wolf _gazes at_ the moon, (see 1765,
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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