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Who fed on thoughts that voluntary mov'd Harmonious numbers , as the wakeful bird Sings darkling , and in shadiest covert hid · Tunes her nocturnal note . ' Seward . Virgil's simile is also translated in one of Let's Tragedies .
Who fed on thoughts that voluntary mov'd Harmonious numbers , as the wakeful bird Sings darkling , and in shadiest covert hid · Tunes her nocturnal note . ' Seward . Virgil's simile is also translated in one of Let's Tragedies .
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| Title | The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Volume 2 The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Francis Beaumont Volume 2 of The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: The First Printed from the Text, George Colman |
| Author | Ben Jonson |
| Publisher | J. Stockdale, 1811 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 6, 2006 |
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