This piece is a variety of the aube (concerning which species see Jeanroy, Les Origines de la Podsie lyrique en France, chapter 3), but is none the less quite modern. There are French and Italian ballads of the same general description. The treacherous or troublesome bird is in French the lark, in one case the cock; in Italian the swallow.
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