 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pagine
..." Vse makcth maistry, this hath bene said alway; But all is not alway as all men do say; In Aprill the koocoo can sing her song by rote, In June of tune shee can not sing a note; At first, koocoo, koocoo, sing still can she doo, At last kooke, kooke, kooke,... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pagine
...their migration they alter their note : " In April, the kookoo can sing her song bj In June oft times she cannot sing a note : At first koocoo, koocoo,...still can she do, At last kooke, kooke, kooke ; six kooke's to one koo." HEY WOOD. The Swallow tribe appear about the same time. The earliest Swallow I... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pagine
...Epigram " Of Use," 1587, alludes to this remarkable circumstance of the Cuckoo's change of note : — An April!, the Koocoo can sing her song by rote, In June, of tune, she cannot sing a note: At iirst, koo-coo, koo-coo, sing still can she do, At last kuoke, kookc, kooke; six kookes to one koo.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 552 pagine
...defalcation of voice is alluded to in an epigram of John Heywood, as far back as 1587. ' In Aprill the koo-coo can sing her song by rote, In June, of...last, kooke, kooke, kooke ; six kookes to one koo.' Our author, however, is mistaken in supposing there is no other bird that loses or changes its note.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 558 pagine
...defalcation of voice is alluded to in an epigram of John Heywood, as far back as 1587. ' In Aprill the koo-coo can sing her song by rote, In June, of...last, kooke, kooke, kooke ; six kookes to one koo.' Our author, however, is mistaken m supposmg there is no bird that loses or changes its note. The voice... | |
 | 1829 - 476 pagine
...koo-koo can sing her song by rote, In June, of tune she cannot sing a note; At first, koo-koo, koo-koo, sing still can she do; At last, kooke, kooke, kooke : six kookes to one koo. Some authors have supposed that no other bird loses or changes its note ; but this is an erroneous... | |
 | 1822 - 666 pagine
...note : " ID April, the kookoo can iiog her song by In Juae oft times ihe canDot -\n% a note : At firit koocoo, koocoo, sing still can she do, At last kooke, kooke, kooke ; lix kooke'i to one koo." HEYWOOD. The Swallow tribe appear about the same time. The earliest Swallow... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pagine
...USE, 05. " Use maketh maistry, this hath been said alway, But all is not alway, as all men do say, In April, the koocoo can sing her song by rote, In June, of tune, she cannot sing a note ; At first, koo coo, koo coo sing still can she do ; At last, kooke, kooke, kooke ; six kookes to one koo !" MITFORD.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pagine
...USK, 95. " Use maketh maistry, this hath been said alway, But all is not alway, as all men do say, In April, the koocoo can sing her song by rote, In June, of tune, she cannot sing a note ; At first, koo coo, koo coo sing still can she do; At last, kooke, kooke, kooke ; six kookes to one koo !" MlTFOIiD.... | |
 | George Soane - 1847 - 360 pagine
...can sing her song by rote ; In June, of tune she can not sing a note ; At first, koo-coo, koo-coo, still can she do ; At last, kooke, kooke, kooke ; six kookes to one koo." The same authority — that is, Forster — informs us "the cuckoo begins early in the season with the... | |
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But all is not alway, as all men do say. In April, the koocoo can sing her song by rote, In June of tune she cannot sing a note: At first koocoo. koocoo, sing still can she do ; At last kooke, kooke, kooke, six kookes to one coo. 
