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Proverb Lore

Note 198:A — Chapter VII

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In the "Parlament of Byrdes," written somewhere about 1550, the chough, or Cornish crow, is thus admonished, in very similar strains to the above:

"Thou Cornysshe, quod the Hauke, by thy wil Say well, and holde thee styll."

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