 Cuculus." " Cuckoo" seems to have been in all ages a term of reproach. Horace mentions it as being applied by the common people to the vintagers in the autumn. Shakspeare, in the beautiful song in the Fifth Act of Love's Labour Lost, has these lines...  The Comedies of Plautus - Page 206by Titus Maccius Plautus - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Printers - 1844 - 328 pages
...larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks and daws, And maidens bleach their smocks, The cuckoo then on every tree, Hocks married men, for thus sings he— Cucioo, cuckoo, cuckoo,— oh, word of fear, tnpleafiing to a married ear. HONEST TOM. The wind was... | |
 | Titus Maccius Plautus - 1852 - 584 pages
...— Ver. 96. " Cuculus." " Cuckoo" seems to have been in all ages a term of reproach. Horace mentions it as being applied by the common people to the vintagers...Lost, has these lines : The cuckoo then on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo ! Cuckoo! cuckoo! 0 word of fear, Uupleasing to a married... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. k. JOBS LOGAN— To the Cuckoo. The Cnckoo tben on every tree, Hocks married men, for thus sings he, Cnckoo! Cuckoo! Cnckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to married ear. /. Love's Labour's Lost. Act. V. Sc. 2. List —... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 380 pages
...And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Hocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Vnpleasing to a married ear 1 n. When shepherds pipe on... | |
 | J.C. GROCOTT - 1854 - 310 pages
...weep, you cuckoo ? ' This term seems to have been in all ages a term of: reproach. HORACE mentions it as being applied by the common people to the vintagers in the autumn. SHAKSBERE, in the beautiful song in the 5th act of Love's* Labour Lost, has these lines — The cuckoo... | |
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