Exploring The Waste Land
An allusion page linked from The Waste Land, Part III, line 203

Campaspe
Trico's song
John Lyly

Twits, jugs and tereus as the sounds of the nightingale's songs were long used by poets but John Lyly used a combination in Trico's song in his play Campaspe.

What Bird so sings, yet so dos wayle?
O t'is the rauish'd Nightingale.
Iug, Iug, Iug, Iug, tereu, shee cryes,
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