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What bird so sings, yet so does wail?
O 'tis the ravished nightingale.
Jug, jug, jug, jug, tereu, she cries,
And still her woes at midnight rise.
John Lyly
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John Lyly
Born:
1553
Died:
November 27, 1606
(aged 53)
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