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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32749	The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original.; Works. 1687	Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Speght, Thomas, fl. 1600.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Siege of Thebes.	1687 (1687)	Wing C3736; ESTC R3920	1,295,535	731

Drake stroier of his owne kind The Stroke wreker of aduoutrie The hote Cormeraunt ful of glotonie The Rauin and the Crowe with her voyce of care The Trostell old and the Frostie feldfare What should I say of fouls of euery kind That in this world haue fethers and stature Men might in that place assembled find Before that noble Goddess of Nature And eche of them did his busie cure Benignely to chese or for to take By her accorde his formell or his make But to the poinct Nature held on her hond A formell Egle of shape the gentillest That euer she among her workes fond The most benigne and eke the goodliest In her was euery vertue at his rest So farforth that Nature her selfe had blisse To looke on her and oft her beeke to kisse Nature the vicare of the almightie Lord That hote colde heuie light moist and drie Hath knit by euen nomber of accord In easie voice began to speake and say Foules take hede of my sentence I pray And for your own ease in fordring of your need As fast as I may speak I will me speed Ye know wel how on S. Valentines day By my statute and through my gouernance Ye doe chese your makes and after flie away With hem as I pricke you with pleasaunce But nathelesse as by rightfull ordinaunce May I not let for all this world to win But he that most worthiest is shall begin The tercell Egle as ye know full wele The foule royall aboue you all in degre The wise worthie the secret true as stele The which I haue formed as ye may see In euery parte as it best liketh mee It nedeth not his shape you to deuise He shall first chese and speaken in his gise And after him by order shall ye chese After your kind euerich as you liketh And as your hap is shall ye win or lese But which of you that loue most entriketh God sende him her that sorest for him siketh And therewithall the Tercell gan she call And said my sonne the choise is to thee fall But nathelesse in this condicion Must be the choice of eueriche that is here That she agree to his election Who so he be that should been her fere This is our vsage alway fro yere to yere And who so may at this time haue his grace Inblisfull time he came into this place With hed enclined with ful humble chere This roial Tercell spake taried nought Vnto my soueraine Lady and not my fere I chose and chese with will hart thought The Formell on your hand so wel iwrought Whose I am all and euer will her serue Doe what her luste to doe me liue or sterue Besechyng her of mercy and of grace As she that is my Ladie souerain Or let me die here present in this place For certes long may I not liue in pain For in my harte is coruen euery vain Hauing regard onely to my trouth My dere harte haue on my wo some routh And if I be found to her vntrue Disobeisaunt or wilfull negligent Auauntour or in processe loue a newe I pray to you this be my judgement That with these foules I be all to rent That ilke day that she me euer find To her vntrue or in my gilte vnkind And sith that none loueth her so well as I Although she neuer of loue me beher Then ought she be mine through her mercy For other bonde can I none on her knet For well nor wo neuer shall I let To serue her how farre so that she wende Say what you list my tale is at an ende Right as the fresh redde Rose newe Against the Sommer Sunne coloured is Right so for shame all waxen gan the hewe Of this Formell when she heard all this Neither she answerde well ne said amis So sore abashed was she till that Nature Said doughter drede you not I you assure Another Tercell Egle spake anon Of lower kind and said that should not be I loue her better than ye doe by sainct Iohn Or at the least I loue her as well as ye And lenger haue serued her in my degree And if she should haue loued for long louing To me alone had be the guerdoning I dare eke say if she me finde false Vnkind jangler or rebell in any wise Or jelous doe me hang by the halfe And but I beare me in her seruise As well as my wit can me suffise Fro poinct to poinct her honour for to saue Take she my life and all the good I haue The third Tercell Egle answerde tho Now sirs ye see the little leaser here For euery foule crieth out to be ago Forth with his make or with his Lady dere And eke nature her self ne will not here For tarying her not half that I would sey And but I speake I must for sorrow dey Of long seruice auaunt I me nothing But as possible is me to die to day For wo as he that hath be sanguishing This twenty winter and wel it happen may A man may serve better and more to pay In half a year although it were no more Than some man doth that hath served full yore I ne say not this by me for I ne can Do no service that may my lady please But I dare say I am her trewest man As to my dome and fainest wold her please At short wordes till that death me cease I will be hers whether I wake or winke And trewe in all that hert may bethinke Of al my life sith that day I was borne So gentle plee in love or other thing Ne herde never no man me beforne Who so that had leiser and conning For to rehearse their chere their speaking And from the morrow gan this spech last Till downward went the sunne wonder fast The noyse of foules for to be deliverd So loude rang Have don and let vs wend That well weend I y● wood had al to shiverd Come off they cryd alas ye will us shend When shal your cursed pleding have an end * How should a Iudge either party leue For ye or nay without any preue The goos the duck and the cuckow also Socried keke keke cuckow queke queke hie Through mine eares the noise went tho The goos said then al this nys worth a flie But I can shape hereof a remedie And will say my verdite faire and swithe For water foule whoso be wroth or blithe And I for worm foule said the fole cuckow now For I will of mine own authorite For common spede take on me the charge For to deliver us it is great charite Ye may abide a while yet perde Qd. the turtel if it be your will A wight may speak it were as good be still I am a sede foule one the vnworthiest That wore I well and leest of comming But better is that a wights tonge rest Than entremete him of such doing Of which he neither rede can nor sing And who so it doth full