Quote#Nature
Your day owl...hath brought such a lot of wondering birds about your…
Quote byThomas Lodge · 1558–1625
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Defence of Poetry (1579), p. 8.
English (original)
Your day owl...hath brought such a lot of wondering birds about your ears, as...will chatter you out of your ivy bush.
— Thomas Lodge
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