Excerpt from The Poetical Aviary, With a Bird's-Eye View of the English Poets Under the sign of an inn representing a man with a bird in his hand, and two birds in a busirl have seen written, A bird in the d'ye see Is worth two in the bushes that be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.