The Dive-dapper. 
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“ Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave, 
Who, being look’d on, ducks as quickly in.” 
( Venus and Adonis , 1. 86.) 
Drayton uses the same name, with a difference of one 
letter: — 
££ And in a creek where waters least did stir, 
Set from the rest the nimble divedopper, 
That comes and goes so quickly and so oft. 
As seems at once both under and aloft.” 
(The Man in the Moon.) 
Drayton elsewhere*gives this little bird another title: — 
“ The diving dob-chick, here amongst the rest you see, 
Now up, now down again, that hard it is to prove. 
Whether under water most it liveth, or above.” 
( Polyolhion , song xxv.) 
In his allegorical poem, The Dolce of Philip Sparoiv, 
Skelton has a different name again: — 
“ The divendop to deep, 
The water hen to weep.” 
Du Bartas writes (p. 46) :— 
“ But (gentle muse) tell me what fowls are those 
That but even-now from flaggy fenns arose ? 
’Tis th’ hungry hern, the greedy cormorant, 
The coot and curlew, which the moors doe haunt, 
The nimble teale, the mallard strong in flight, 
The di-dapper, the plover and the snight.” 
The common shore bird, “ the Puffin that is halfe fish, 
halfe flesh (a John Indifferent, and an arnbo- 
dexter betwixt either) ” (Nashe, Lenten Stuffe ), 1 1 131 
is mentioned by Carew in company with the burranet:— 
“ The puffin hatcheth in holes of the cliff, whose young ones are 
thence ferretted out, being exceeding fat, kept salted, and reputed for 
fish, as coming nearest thereto in their taste. The burranet hath like 
