“The Stork, still eyeing her deer Thessalie,
The Pelican comforteth cheerfully:
Prayse-worthy Payer; which pure examples yield
Of faithfull Father, and Officious Childe:
Th’ one quites (in time) her Parents love exceeding,
From whom shee had her birth and tender breeding;
Not onely brooding under her warm brest
Their age-chill’d bodies bed-rid in the nest;
Nor only bearing them upon her back
Through th’ empty Aire, when their own wings they lack;