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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. 
