. i—a late fifteenth-century dish in the Victoria and Albert Museum—the student of mediaeval natural history lore currentat the time when the work in question was pro-duced will have no difficulty in recognising thehoopoe. This bird, according to the passage trans-lated from the Latin text of the… … no. 13. —HROWN Ll-STRK UISII, 9^ IN. UIAMKIER(VAI.KNCIA, XV.—XVI. C«NT.) l8 riC. 13. —LUSTRE AM) BLUE DISH (VALE.NCIA, c. 1475—1500) have laboured to rear me, so do I in like mannerfor you.* Thus are the parent birds again renewedin youth and vigour. The moral—for every suchfable, no matter how…
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