[3] Parlement of Foules, 190.
[4] The Flower and the Leaf, 34. Even if this poem be held not to have come from the pen of Chaucer, it shows that he was not alone at an early time in his enthusiasm for birds and their song.
[5] Much Ado about Nothing, II. i. 197.
[6] 3 Henry VI. II. ii. 26.
[7] Titus Andronicus, II. i. 93.
[8] Macbeth, IV. ii. 34.
[9] 2 Henry VI. I. iii. 86.
[10] Hamlet, III. iii. 67.
[11] 3 Henry VI. V. vi. 13.
[12] Lucrece, 87.