 The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill. "The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark. And dares not answer nay.  The Naturalist - Page 1971857Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Ritson - English poetry - 1829 - 346 pages
...walk'd forth, along the way, He sung right merrily. " The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren...The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckow grey, 10 Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, Nay." " Now, Christ thee... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...saws, in slumbei lie. THE OUSEL COCK. (Shakspeare.) THE ousel cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawney bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren...quill : The finch, the sparrow, and the lark. The plain song-cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dare not answer nay. v PLATO'S ADVICE.... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 138 pages
...have a fool's head of your own." ACT III. Sc. 1. " The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill; The throstle with his note so true;— The wren...the sparrow, and the lark ; The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay;— for, indeed, who would set... | |
 | William Shakespeare, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1842 - 562 pages
...ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill ; The throstle with his note so true ; — The wreti with little quill ; " The finch, the sparrow, and the lark ; The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay ; — for, indeed, who would... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...183 OIIDER II.— PERCHING BIRDS. IXSESSORES. "The ousel-cock,* so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill: The throstle, with his note so true ; The wren,...sparrow, and the lark; The plain-song cuckoo grey." — SHAKSPEARE. IN consequence of the great number of species comprised in the present order, it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...so true, The wren with little quill; Tita. What angel wakes me from my flowery bed ? [ Waking. Bot. The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo^ grey, Whose note full mang a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay ; Tita. I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again, Mine... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...makes sweet division. 35 — iii. 5. 106. The same. The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawney bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren,...finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, 107. Birds. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,... | |
 | Robert Bell - English drama - 1854 - 290 pages
...offence. Chorus. Philomel, with melody, ,fcc. THE woosel-cock,* so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren...finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay. THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT — THE... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1854 - 406 pages
...birds here, even as he sung who lies below: — " The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren...finch, the sparrow, and the larK, The plain-song cuckoo gray." The church has been carefully restored inside, so that it is now in excellent preservation,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Fiction - 1854 - 398 pages
...birds here, even as he sung who lies below : — " The ousel-cook, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The wren...finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray." The church has been carefully restored inside, so that it is now in excellent preservation,... | |
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