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Les Coquuz.
Probleme.
D’ond vient cela, que Lombardz citadins
Nomment coquuz, paysans Contadins?
Le coquu chante au printems. 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 ont femme ribaude, mais au con-
traire ceulx qui couchent avec la fem-
me d’aultruy. Le mot prins sur la na-
ture de L’oyseau, 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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