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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man. | author = Young | work = Night Thoughts. | place = Night V. L. 158. | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burns}}) | topic = Cruelty | page = 153

CUCKOO

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note. | author = Gray | work = Ode on the Spring. | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace, It sings of love that will not cease, For me it never sings in vain. Fred'k Locker-Lampson. The Cuckoo. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Oh, could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring. John Logan—To the Cuckoo. Attributed also to Michael Bhuce. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year. John Logan—To the Cuckoo. Attributed also to Michael Bruce. Arguments in favor of Logan in Notes and Queries, April, 1902. P. 309. In favor of Bruce, June 14, 1902. P. 469. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The cuckoo builds not for himself. Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 28. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And being fed by us you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, Useth the sparrow. Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 59. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The cuckoo then on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo! O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 908. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. Spenser—Sonnet. 19. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings, The symphony of spring. Thomson—The Seasons. Spring. L. 576. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = List—'twas the cuckoo—O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint, Far off and faint, and melting into air, Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again! Those louder cries give notice that the bird, Although invisible as Echo's self, Is wheeling hitherward. Wordsworth—The Cuckoo at Lavema. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = blithe New-comer! I have heard, hear thee and rejoice; O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice? Wordsworth—To the Cuckoo. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Shelley}} under {{sc|Lark}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = CURIOSITY Each window like a pill'ry appears, With heads thrust through naiZ'd by the ears. Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. 391. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = I loathe that low vice—curiosity. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. Canto I. St. 23. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake. Dryden—Sixth Satire of Juvenal. L. 762. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. | author = Goldsmith | work = She Stoops to Conquer. | place = Act III. | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est. Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker. | author = Horace | work = Epistles. | place = I. 18. 69. | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rise up, rise up, Xarifa! lay your golden cushion down; Rise up! come to the window, and gaze with all the town! John G. Lockhart—The Bridal of Andella. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = I sawand heard, for we sometimes, Who dwell this wild, constrained by want, come forth To town or village nigh, nighest is far, Where aught we hear, and curious are to hear, What happens new; fame also finds us out. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Regained. | place = Bk. I. L. 330. | note = | topic = | page = 153 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Platon estime qu'il y ait quelque vice d'impi&£ a trop curieusement s'enquerir de Dieu et du monde. Plato holds that there is some vice of impiety in enquiring loo curiously about God and the world. | author = Montaigne | work = Essays. | place = Bk. II. Ch. XII. | note = | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hamlet}}) | topic = | page = }}