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"A wicked action fear to do, / When you are by yourself; for though / You think you can conceal it, / A little bird that's in the air / The hidden trespass shall declare / And openly reveal it."
Richard this saying oft had heard, / Until the sight of any bird / Would set his heart a-quaking; / He saw a host of winged spies / For ever o'er him in the skies, / Note of his actions taking.