Cuckoo. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Cuckoo


How sweet the sound of the cuckoo’s note! Whence is the magic pleasure of the sound? Grahame.—Birds of Scotland, Part II. Line 1.	1
The cuckoo then on every tree, Mocks married men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing sound to the married ear. Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Scene 2. (A song at the end of the Act.)	2
The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer nay. Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III. Scene 1. (Bottom, singing.)	3
With the hymns of the church, and the plain song. Longfellow.—Evangeline, Part I. Div. 1.	4
Why do you weep, you cuckoo? Riley’s Plautus, Vol. I. The Pseudolus, Act I. Scene 1.	5