[The chorle and the birde] Chorle and the birde Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A06543 of text S120572 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 17008). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 3 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A06543 STC 17008 ESTC S120572 99855768 99855768 21270 2240896137

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A06543) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 21270) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1:07) [The chorle and the birde] Chorle and the birde Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? [2+] leaves W. Caxton, [Westminster : 1477?] By John Lydgate. In verse. Title and imprint from STC. 1st page, line 6: writyng. Ends:.Explicit the chorle and the birde. Imperfect; fragment consisting of 2 leaves only, the second of which is mutilated. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng eebo [The chorle and the birde] Lydgate, John, 1477 6 548 36 0 0 0 1 0 839.42 F The rate of 839.42 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2005-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-07 Sampled and proofread 2005-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
I am now take and stande vnder danger Holde streight that I may not flee A dew my songe and alle my notes cleer Now that I haue loste my liberte Now I am thrall where somtyme I was free And truste well whyle I am in distresse I can not synge nor make no gladnesse And though my cage forged were of golde And the pynacles of berell and cristall I remembre a prouerbe said of olde Who loseth his fredom forsothe he loseth all For I had leuer vpon a braunche small Merily to synge among the woodes grene Than in a cage of siluer bright and shene Songe in prison hath none acordance Trowst thou I wyl synge in prison Songe procedeth of Ioye and of plesance And prison causeth deth and destruction Ryngyng of feters is no mery sowne Or how shold he be glad or Ioconde Agayn his wille that lieth in cheynes bonde What auaylleth hit a lyon to be a kynge Of bestes alle shette in a toure of stone Or an egle vnder streyte kepynge Called also kynge of fowles euerichone Fy on lordship whan liberte is gone Answere herto late hit not asterte Who syngeth merily that syngeth not at herte And yf thou wilt reioyse of my syngyng Late me goo flee fer from alle daunger And euery day in the morenyng I shal repayre vnto thy lawrer And fresshly synge with lusty notes cleer Vnder thy chambre or a fore thyn halle Euery season whan thou liste me calle To be shette vp and pynned vnder drede No thyng acordeth vnto my nature Though I were fed with mylke & wastell brede And with cruddes brought to my pasture Yet had I leuer to do my besy cure Erly on morowe to scrape in the vale To fynde my dyner among the wormes smale The thirde is 〈…〉 Forgete hit not 〈…〉 For tresour lost 〈…〉 Whiche in no wyse 〈…〉 For who soroweth 〈…〉 Rekene first his losse 〈…〉 Of one sorowe he 〈…〉 After this lesson the birde 〈…〉 Of her escape gretly 〈…〉 And remembrid her also 〈…〉 Doon by the chorle first a● her 〈◊〉 Of her affraye and of her 〈◊〉 Glad that she was at larg● 〈◊〉 Sayd to hym hoouyng aboue his 〈◊〉 Thou were sayd she a veray naturel foo● To suffre me departe of thy lewdenes Thou oughtest of right compleyne & make 〈◊〉 And in thyn herte to haue grete heuynes That thou hast lost so passing grete riches Whiche might suffyse by valew in rekenyng To paye the raunson of a mighty kyng 〈…〉 entraylle 〈…〉 vnce 〈…〉 ●arnettis of entaylle 〈…〉 in bataylle 〈…〉 hym this stone 〈…〉 his mortal foon 〈…〉 possession 〈…〉 none in digence 〈…〉 plente and foyson 〈…〉 do hym reuerence 〈…〉 do hym none offence 〈…〉 now that I am goon 〈…〉 thou ●●●●t / for thy part is noon 〈…〉 loue hit maketh men gracious 〈…〉 fauorable in euery mannes sight 〈…〉 maketh accorde betwene folk enuyous Conforteth sorowfull / maketh heuy hertes light Lyke to pasion of colour sonnyssh bright I am a fool to telle alle cettones Or teche a chorle the pris of precious stones