Footnote 4: [(return)] Sketches of New and Old Sleaford, County of Lincoln, and of several places in the Neighbourhood, p. 224. 8vo Baldwin and Co.
Footnote 5: [(return)]
"Ill-omen'd in his form, the unlucky fowl,
Abhorr'd by men, and call'd a screeching owl."—Garth's Trans.
Footnote 6: [(return)] "They fly by night, and assail infants in the nurse's absence."
Footnote 7: [(return)] "Even the ill-boding owl is declared a bird of good omen."
Footnote 8: [(return)] "The Stygian owl gives sad omens in a thousand places."
Footnote 9: [(return)] "A feather of the night owl."
Footnote 10: [(return)]
——"And, on her palace top,
The lonely owl with oft repeated scream
Complains, and spins into a dismal length
Her baleful shrieks."—Trapp's Trans.
Footnote 11: [(return)] "And sell bodies torn from their tombs."