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SPARABELLA.
HE wailings of a maiden I recite,
A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight,
Such strains ne'er warble in the linnets throat,
Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts so sweet a note,
No magpye chatter'd, nor the painted jay,[2] 5
No Ox was heard to low, nor Ass to bray.
No rustling breezes play'd the leaves among,
While thus her madrigal the damsel sung.
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HE wailings of a maiden I recite, A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight,
Such strains ne'er warble in the linnets throat,
Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts so sweet a note,
No magpye chatter'd, nor the painted jay,[2] 5
No Ox was heard to low, nor Ass to bray.
No rustling breezes play'd the leaves among,
While thus her madrigal the damsel sung.
- ↑ Dumps, or Dumbs, made use of to express a fit of the sullens. Some have pretended that it is derived from Dumops a king of Egypt, that built a pyramid and dy'd of melancholy. So Mopes after the same manner, is thought to have come from Merops another Egyptian king, that dy'd of the same distemper; but our English antiquaries have conjectur'd, that dumps, which is, a grievous heaviness of spirits, comes from the word dumplin, the heaviest kind of pudding that is eaten in this country, much used in Norfolk, and other counties of England.
- ↑ L. 5. Immemor Herbarum quos est mirata juvenca
Certantes quorum stupefactæ carmine Lynces;
Et mutata suos requierunt flumina cursus.Virg.
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