Showing the White Feather.
—What is the origin of this periphrasis for cowardice? Certainly not the words of King Henry:
"Press where ye see my white plume shine,
Amidst the ranks of war;
And be your Oriflamme to-day
The helmet of Navarre."
A. A. D.
Trin. Coll. Dublin.
Gray and Locke.
—The germ of Gray's—