That with his sharpe look perceth the sonne;

And other egles of a lower kinde,

Of which that clerkes wel devysen conne.

Ther was the tyraunt with his fethres donne

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And greye, I mene the goshauk, that doth pyne

To briddes for his outrageous ravyne.

The gentil faucon, that with his feet distreyneth

The kinges hond; the hardy sperhauk eke,

The quayles foo; the merlion that peyneth