And whyl that I, in my drery payne,
Sat, and beheld aboute on every tree
The foules sitten, alway twayne and twayne,
Than thoughte I thus: 'alas! what may this be,
That every foul hath his libertee
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Frely to chesen after his desyre
Everich his make thus, fro yeer to yere?
The sely wrenne, the titmose also,
The litel redbrest, have free eleccioun