Thomas Vautor (1580?-1619?). Sweet Suffolk Owl. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Sweet Suffolk Owl

By Thomas Vautor (1580?–1619?)


SWEET Suffolk owl, so trimly dight
With feathers, like a lady bright,
Thou sing’st alone, sitting by night,
Te whit, te whoo!
Thy note that forth so freely rolls,	5
With shrill command the mouse controls,
And sings a dirge for dying souls,
Te whit, te whoo!