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...unreproved pleasures free : To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth...to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock, with lively...

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...football. Childermas, or the Feast of Holy Innocents, was esteemed a day of very unlucky omens.* " When the Cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness...or the barndoor, Stoutly struts his dames before." * See Hospinian de Festis, and other early writers on Christian Antiquities. In describing, as above,...

...free : To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tow'r in the skies, , Till the dappled dawn doth rise ;...to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively...