Three birds exhaust your bard’s vocabulary:

Larks, nightingales and owls! High time, you see,

To wean this fellow from your piper’s tales,

And teach him craftily

To build our hungry birds a homelike sanctuary.

ALWYN

[Patting Quercus’ shoulder.]

Good Shy, no schooling could so much relieve

My modern apprehensions: Tutor him,

Hoof, head and limb,