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In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille. - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (l. 13,541), The Clerk's Tale The song-birds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind, And pipings of the quail among the sheaves. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Harvest Moon Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny. - William Shakespeare, The History of Troilus and Cressida (Thersites at V, i)
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