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“April is the month of love; and the country of Chastelleraud abounds with Arcadian nightingales.”—Rabelais: Pantagruel. v. 7 (note).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.