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Les Coquuz.
PROBLEME.
D’ond vient cela, que Lombardz citadins
Nomment coquuz, paysans Contadins?
Le coquu chante au primtemps. L’ors sont ceulx
(Qui n’hont pas faict leurs vignes) paresseux.[1]
Au nid d’aultruy ses oeufz le coquu pose,
Comme qui d’aultre adultere l’espouse.
Coquuz proprement ne sont pas ceulx
qui hont femme ribaulde, mais au contraire
ceulx qui couchent avec la femme d’aul-
truy. Le mot prins sur la nature de L’oy-
seau, qui pont ses oeufz au nid des aultres.
1. See Pliny, Natural History, 18.66.249, and Horace, Satires, 1.7.31, for the use of the word ‘cuckoo’ as term of mockery for the idle man who has failed to finish pruning his vines before the cuckoo is heard calling.
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- spring, 'Ver'; 'Primavera' (Ripa) [23D42] Search | Browse Iconclass
- audible means of communication of animal(s): roaring, crying, singing, etc. [25F(+49)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- birds (+ nest, den, burrow) [25F3(+421)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- other birds: cuckoo [25F39(CUCKOO)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- nest, den, burrow [34(+9421)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- 'Adulterio' (Ripa) [42D390] Search | Browse Iconclass
- farmers [46A14] Search | Browse Iconclass
- pruning [47I135] Search | Browse Iconclass
- vine [47I422] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Idleness; 'Otio' (Ripa) [54DD2] Search | Browse Iconclass
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