The nightingale with so mery a note

Answered him, that all the wood rang

So sodainly, that as it were a sote,

I stood astonied, so was I with the sang

Thorow ravished, that till late and lang,

I ne wist in what place I was, ne where,

And aye me thought she sang even by mine ear.

Wherefore I waited about busily

On every side, if I her might see,

And at the last I gan full well espie