A poete somtyme may for his pleasure taunt, 100
Spekyng in parablis,[1502] how the fox, the grey,
The gander, the gose, and the hudge oliphaunt,
Went with the pecok ageyne[1503] the fesaunt;
The lesarde came lepyng, and sayd that he must,
With helpe of the ram, ley all in the dust.
Yet dyuerse ther[1504] be, industryous of reason,
Sum what wolde gadder in there coniecture[1505]
Of suche an endarkid chapiter sum season;
How be it, it were harde to construe this lecture;