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… … -BROW.N LUSTRE lusu, gi IN. DIAMETER(VALENCIA, XV.—XVI. CENT.) 13. — LUbTRE AND BLUE DISH (VALENCI.V, 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 fantastic, always…
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