In chymneyes to rest;
Within those walles
No broken galles
May there abyde
Of cokoldry syde]
The stork breeds in chimney-tops, and was fabled to forsake the place, if the man or wife of the house committed adultery. The following lines of Lydgate will illustrate the rest of the passage:
“a certaine knight
Gyges called, thinge shameful to be tolde,
To speke plaine englishe, made him [i. e. Candaules] cokolde.