217 Of a Swanne.
A Ryche man brought vp a Swan and a Goose together, but not both to one purpose, for the one shoulde serue to sing, the other for the table.
A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ...
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When the time was come that the Goose should do that for which he was kept vp, it chaunced to be night, so that one could not be knowen from the other, and the Swanne was caried awaye in¦stead of the Goose, who soong a song at the begin∣ning of hir deth, by which she shewed hir nature, and by hir swéete singing escaped death.
MOR. Commonly Musick prolongeth life.