A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised (1586)
Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601? · Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius · leaf 64
BY fwallowcs note, the Springe wee vnderftande.The Cuckowe comes, ere Sommer doth beginnc;The vinefinche fhowes, that harueft is at hande:The Chaffinche finges, when winter commcth in: Which times they keepe, that man thcrebie maie knowe,yowc Seafbns chaunge, and tymcs do come and goe. Taruam… … U IN (malle, and little thinsc;, there is no eame at all, An^r. Aleut. Onegroauc.maie not two redbreaftes Icnic, but cuermore they brail. ttHtmthMs. CunSIa. compkSft yelk ^ fldtum.
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