_The Cuckoo--the Welch Ambassador._--In Middleton's _A Trick
to Catch the Old One_, Act iv. sc. 5., Dampet says:--
"Why, thou rogue of universality, do I not know thee? Thy
sound is like the cuckoo, the Welch Embassador."
And the editor of the continuation of Dodsley's
_Collection_ remarks on the passage,--
"Why the cuckoo is called the Welch Embassador, I know not."
{231}Perhaps some of your readers can explain why the cuckoo is so
called.