In Gardiner’s “Music of Nature,” the following passage is given from the song of the Nightingale:—
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Although the male bird only is the songster, yet we talk of her singing:—
“It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierc’d the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree;[67]
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 5.