turning of the spinners. 141
[Illustration]
HAWTHORNS AND LADY-BONGS.
p. 105
A tassel-ganger, _tasselerus agitatus_, but in vain
in the waggish clutch of his long-tongued, long-armed 2
pen of hand
a poor, wingless bird, _sulpicula desiderata_, found only in old 4
books, rarely in illuminations and woodcuts, the companion and 5
_copia_ of the bookworm
when his turn came, taking a kind of rest, _tenerior et morigera_, 6
as well as his predecessors the squirrels, birds of the fern,
and now a fellow-conspirator, a fellow-hawthorn-rider, 7
that is, a fellow-hawthorn-man, the rider
in the _villa porcorum_, the palace of the wild-beast, the
_parva somnia sapientum_, a minatory, or rather a 8
whimsical, or at least a sociable spirit, without claws, 9
amusing the ch
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