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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