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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This said?he chaunted out his Cuckow's song Which laughter bred amongst the thickest throng: Nor any prittie bird about the place Would in their song vouchsafe to do him grace. Notwithstanding this discouraging symptom, the chief of the nymphs decrees the palm to Dan Cuckow, whose voice had no variety, no change, no choice, and proclaims her unjust sentence to the woodland quire: -and thereupon, Such murmur as we heare in woods that grone, When winds rouz'd up through hollow grounds do break; Such noise was heard 'mongst those that heard her speake: And all the quier of birds about the place Did droope and hang the head, for such disgrace To wronged Philomel, and for her sake A mourn full melodie did sceme to make. Poor Philomel, deprived of future hope, and overcome with grief, now falls into a sudden swoon. Her sister Progne raises and revives her, aided by the gentle Redbreast, the Titmouse, and the Wren, with whom she takes her flight (as a voluntary exile) to desert woods; where her sequestered dwelling is thus poetically described: ? 'Twas in a rocke, whose head itselfe did shroud In mistie cloake of many a wandring cloud, And whose thicke mossie sides and hollow wombe To many a bird did yeeld much building roome: Greene says, in his Quip for an upstart Courtier, 1620, The Cuckold'i Quirister began to bewray AprU-Gcallemeu with his never changed note. chapter{{Section 4It seated was downe in a valley low, Where many a silver gliding streame did flow; And leavie woods in arbor-wise did stand, As made by art, and not by nature's hand. From right side of this rocke there issued out A crystall spring, which flowed round about The bottome of the rock; whose upper brim, Thick set with hearbs and flowers, smelt...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217919319 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217919316 |
| Weight | 1.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.18 In |
| List Price | $24.58 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 530 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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