April 2, 1790

Posted by sydney on Apr 2nd, 1790

Nightingales heard in honey-lane.

“The Nightingall, that chaunteth all the springe,/
Whose warblinge notes throughout the wooddes are harde,/
Beinge kepte in cage, she ceaseth for to singe,/
And mourns, bicause her libertie is barde.”
— Geffrey Whitney’s Emblemes: 1586, p.81

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