And in the dawning ther I lay,

Me mette thus, in my bed al naked:—

[I] loked forth, for I was waked

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With smale foules a gret hepe,

That had affrayed me out of slepe

Through noyse and swetnesse of hir song;

And, as me mette, they sate among,

Upon my chambre-roof withoute,

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