Birds of the Farm-yard 
was well pleased, her husband addresses her 
thus : 
Well, come, my Kate ; we will unto your father’s 
Even in these honest mean habiliments : 
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor ; 
For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich ; 
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 
What is the jay more precious than the lark 
Because his feathers are more beautiful ? 
Or is the adder better than the eel, 
Because his painted skin contents the eye? 
The various Brrps oF THE FARM-YARD 
have received due attention from the great 
dramatist. Chief among them, the cock 
is frequently cited, especially as a recog- 
nised chronometer of the morning hours, 
for in Elizabethan days this mode of 
indicating time had not gone out of 
popular use. We all remember the un- 
happy experience of the carrier in the 
inn at Rochester “since the first cock.’’? 
1 Taming of the Shrew, i. ili. 165. 
21 Henry IV. 11. 1. 15. Chaucer’s reference to the bird 
is “ The cok, that orloge is of thorpes lyte.” Parlement, 350. 
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