Horrida pro moestis lanictur pluma capillis,
Pro longa resonent carmina vestra tuba.”
Amor. lib. ii. El. vi. 5. 1.
v. 396. ianglynge] i. e. babbling, chattering—an epithet generally applied to the jay by our old poets.
v. 397. fleckyd] i. e. spotted, variegated.
v. 403. the red sparow] i. e. the reed-sparrow.
“The Red-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren.”
Drayton’s Polyolbion, Song xiii. p. 215. ed. 1622.
“The Red Sparrow, or Reed Sparrow.” R. Holme’s Ac. of Armory, 1688. B. ii. p. 246.