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The birds of Shakespeare

Note 195 — SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, O.M.

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Chaucer’s phrase is:

The wedded turtel, with hir herte trewe. Parlement, 355.

It was the moaning croon of the bird from the high elms that dwelt in Virgil’s memory.

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