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.