Times Cvrtaine Drawne or The Anatomie of Vanitie. With other choice poems, Entituled; Health from Helicon. By Richard Brathwayte |
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THE PARROTTS SPRING.
Psittacus vt vocem rapuit Prometheus ignem.
Stolne waters be the sweet'st, may th'Parrot say,
Whose borrowed note and Coate his truth bewray:
But it's prodigious for Fowls to sing
Of Wood-cocks caught within a Parrotts spring.
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