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CYGNETS. 



works of Shakespeare wherein it is mentioned or referred 

 to, we fear the reader's patience might become exhausted. 

 Where such allusions, therefore, are trifling, we have thought 

 it well to pass them by. 



In the present chapter, enough has probably been said 

 to show that while more attractive species have claimed 

 a larger share of the poet's attention, the birds under 

 domestication have been by no means neglected. 



