"When chanticleer with clarion shrill recalls
The tardy day;"
Milton, _P. L._ vii. 443:
"The crested cock, whose clarion sounds
The silent hours;"
_Hamlet_, i. 1:
"The cock that is the trumpet to the morn;"
Quarles, _Argalus and Parthenia_:
"I slept not till the early bugle-horn
Of chaunticlere had summon'd in the morn;"
and Thomas Kyd, _England's Parnassus_:
"The cheerful cock, the sad night's trumpeter,
Wayting upon the rising of the sunne;
The wandering swallow with her broken song," etc.
20. _Their lowly bed_. Wakefield remarks: "Some readers, keeping in
mind the 'narrow cell' above, have mistaken the 'lowly bed' in this
verse for the grave--a most puerile and ridiculous blunder;" and
Mitford says: "Here the epithet 'lowly,' as applied to 'bed,'
occasions some ambiguity as to whether the poet meant the bed on
which they sleep, or the grave in which they are laid, which in
poetry is called a 'lowly bed.' Of course the former is designed; but
Mr. Lloyd, in his Latin translation, mistook it for the latter."