[iangelinge] brid that singeth on the heye braunches, that is to seyn,
in the wode, and after is enclosed in a streyt cage: al-though that
the [pleyinge bisinesse] of men yeveth hem honiede drinkes and
large metes with swete studie, yit natheles, yif thilke brid, skippinge
out of hir streyte cage, seeth the [agreables] shadewes of the
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wodes, she defouleth with hir feet hir metes y-shad, and seketh
mourninge only the wode; and twitereth, desiringe the wode, with
hir swete vois. The yerde of a tree, that is haled a-doun by
mighty strengthe, boweth redily the crop a-doun: but yif that the