The throstel olde; the frosty feldefare.
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What shulde I seyn? of foules every kinde
That in this worlde han fethres and stature,
Men mighten in that place assembled finde
Before the noble goddesse Nature.
And everich of hem did his besy cure
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Benignely to chese or for to take,
By hir acord, his formel or his make.