With the remembrance of a grievous wrong,
. . . . he, and such as he,
First named these notes a melancholy strain."
Plato Phædo, § 77. (p. 85., Steph.):
"Men, because they fear death themselves, slander the swans, and say that they sing from pain lamenting their death, and do not consider that no bird sings when hungry, or cold, or suffering any other pain; no, not even the nightingale, and the swallow, and the hoopoe, which you know are said to sing for grief," &c.
Hooker, E. P. I. c.5. § 2.:
"All things therefore coveting as much as may be to be like unto God in being ever, that which cannot hereunto attain personally doth seek to continue itself another way, that is, by offspring and propagation."
Clem. Alex. Strom. II. 23. § 138. (p. 181. Sylb.)
Sir J. Davies. Immortality of the Soul, sect 7.:
"And though the soul could cast spiritual seed,