(Magpie.) “Hark!—can that be a bird?—it more bellows than sings—
Or a bull seeing masks, under favour of wings?”—
(Daw.) “’Tis a Bittern; they say he’s a Heron by race;
But sure never bird had a warble so bass!
Perhaps he is come from Cape Horn, he is fagg’d,
And is roaring for hunger.”
(Chatterer.) “I wish he were gagg’d!—
But see, here’s another—this comes from Brazil;—
What a figure!—let’s kill it, and stuff it.”—“We will.”
“His back’s like the mantle that covers a Judge,