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" He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and  "
Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries ... - Page 374
edited by - 1810
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Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 454 pages
...language, without any determinate idea ; such language as parrots are taught to speak. So, inHudibras: " Could tell what subt'lest parrots mean, " That speak, and think contrary clean ; " What member 'tis of whom they talk, " When they cry rope, and walk knave, walk." The following...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 33-34

John Bell - 1797 - 722 pages
...Ilosycrucian lore as learned, 545 As he that Vcre adeylu: earned: iBe understood the speech of birds As weil as they themselves do words! Could tell what subtlest...parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; 550 What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry Rope, and Walk, Knave, Walk. He'd extract numbers...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...parrot prophesiet. To this, Butler hints, where, speaking of Ralpho's skill in augury, he says — " Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, " That speak and think contrary clean ; " What member 'tis of whom they talk, " When they cry rope, and walk, knave, walk'' Wen.burton. So,...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Issue 5

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 404 pages
...my parrot prophesies. To this, Butler hints, where, speaking of Ralpho's skill in augury, he says, Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk, When they cry ROPE, and walk, knave, walk. WARBURTON. 36 Kitchen-vestal.]...
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The process of the seuyn sages. Octouian imperator. Sir Amadas. The huntyng ...

Henry William Weber - 1810 - 486 pages
...mystical writers of the seventeenth century.— Butler, when enumerating the wonderful acquirements of Ralpho, says : " He understood the speech of birds...Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and thbik contrary clean." OCTOUIAN IMPERATOR. V. 127, Thouneverseghnowoman, But schehadde a by-leman,...
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Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries ...

Henry William Weber - 1810 - 478 pages
...mystical writers of the seventeenth century. — Butler, when enumerating the wonderful acquirements of Ralpho, says : >•~ He understood the speech of...do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, 'ITiat speak and think contrary clean." OCTOUJAN IMPERATOR. V. 127, Thouneverseghno woman, But schehadde...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 8

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...Rosicrucian lore as learned, As he that Vert adtptus earned : He understood the speech of birds AŤ well, as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and tbink contrary clean ; What memlwr 'tis of whom they talk When they cry " Rope," and " Walk, knave,...
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Hudibras: Poem, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 pages
...would do neither good nor harm ; In Rosy-crucian lore as learned, 545 As he that vere adeptua earned. He understood the speech of birds, As well as they...themselves do words; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean* TJiat think and. speak contrary clean; 550 What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry Rope, and...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...cup, or modern chair ; Spoke truth point-blank, though unaware. He understood the speech of birds 547 As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what...parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; 550 He'd extract numbers out of matter, 553 And keep them in a glass, like water ; Of sov'reign power...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 480 pages
...parrot prophesies. To this, Butler hints, where, speaking of Ralpho's skill in augury, he says — " Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, " That speak and think contrary clean; " What member 'tis of whom they talk, " When they cry rope, and walk, Jmave, watt." WARBORTON-. So,...
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