Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Nightingale
Sweet bird, that shun’st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy.
Milton.—Il Penseroso. Rogers.—Human Life.
I prefer the nightingale herself.
Philip of Macedon.—Article on Imitations, Disraeli’s Cur. of Lit. Vol. I. Page 69.