Dead bodies dyd in the feldes appere
Which in battayle had afore be slayne,
Fro their tombes rising where they layne,
[43].
Obscenaeque canes importunaeque volucres
Signa dabant. Georgics, Bk. I., line 470.
[44]. Tristia mille locis Stygius dedit omina bubo. Met., Bk. XV. Ed. Teubner. L. 791.
This Golding quaintly translates,
The Screeche owle sent from hell,
Did with her tune unfortunate in every corner yell.