Don Adriano de Armado notes “the words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo” after a group divided into “Spring” and “Winter” presents a song contrasting these two animals. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these two specific animals. One of them “nightly sings” a “merry note, while greasy Joan doth keel the pot,” while the other produces a “word of fear, unpleasing to a married ear.”
ANSWER: the owl and the cuckoo [accept answers in either order; reject "birds"]
[10e] That song concludes this early Shakespeare comedy, whose alliterative title refers to its unusual ending, in which the weddings of the King of Navarre and his companions are delayed for a year.
ANSWER: Love's Labour's Lost
[10m] The speaker laments “love and constancy is dead” in this Shakespeare poem about a funeral for two other birds, who are said to be “co-supremes and stars of love” despite their differing natures.
ANSWER: "The Phoenix and the Turtle"
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