The swallow. (See Nightingale.)
“As Prognē or as Philomeʹla mourns . .
That finds the nest by cruel hands dispoiled; . .
So Bradamant laments her absent knight.”
Orlando Furioso, book xxiii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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