Note 31 — REVIEW OF THE EXCURSION; A POEM

With partie coloured plumes and purple bill, A woondrous bird among the rest there flew, That in plaine speech sung love laies loud and shrill, Her leden was like humaine language trew, So much she talkt, and with such wit and skill, That strange it seemed how much good she knew. Fairefax's Translation [Book 16, Stanza 13].