 | 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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 554 pages
...they can. I will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid. [Sings. The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny...with his note so true, The wren with little quill. Tita. What angel wakes me from my flowery bed ? [ Waking. Bot. The/inch, the sparrow, and the lark,... | |
 | Musa, Thomas Oliphant (president of the Madrigal society) - 1837 - 520 pages
..." a word of fear " Unpleasing to a married ear." Love's Labour's Lost. And again he is called " the Cuckoo gray, " Whose note full many a man doth mark, " And dares not answer nay." Midsummer Night's Dream. As the writer, however, has not informed us why the Cuckoo should bear the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1837 - 516 pages
...that they shall tear I am not afraid. [Sing-». The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-lawny bill, The throstle with his note so true. The wren with little quill ; Tita. What angel wakei me from my flowery bed ? [Waking. Bot. The finch, the sparrma, and the lark,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...that they shall hear 1 am not afraid. (Sings,) The ousel-cock, so black of hue, Jf'ith oranye-taitinj e found remarkably distinct. To this life and variety of character, ; Tita. What angel wakes me from mv flowery bed? (Watimg.) Bot. The finch, the sparrow, and the /ant,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...they can. I will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid. [Sings. The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny bill, The throstle with his note so true, The ivren with little quill. Tita. What angel wakes me from my flowery bed ? [ Waking. Bot. The finch,... | |
 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1839 - 920 pages
...with a book amongst the woods which surrounded her secluded home ; now and then pausing to listen to " The throstle, with his note so true,— The wren, with little quill ," or to watch the growth of the flowers she had cultivated with so much care ; or to visit the cottages... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 pages
...and in all other countries it is used in the same reproachful sense : ' The plain song Cuckoo grey, Whose Note full many a Man doth mark, And dares not answer nay.' Shaksp. " The reproach seems to arise from this Wrd making use of the hed or nest of another to deposit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 562 pages
...more they're beaten, the better still they be." ACT. III. Sc. 1. " Hot. Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them, to make me afeard. Re-enter...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...they can : I will walk up and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid. Sinys. The ousel-cock, so black of hue, With orange-tawny...with his note so true; — The wren with little quill ; Tila. What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? [Waking. BOTTOM tings. The finch, the sparrow, and... | |
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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... 
