The tijiie of the singing of birds is come, 



I rose anoUf and thoght I wolde goon 

 Into the wode, to here the briddes singe^ 

 lVhe7i that the mysty vapour was agoon, 

 And clere andfeyer was the morownyng. 



And in I went to here the briddes songe, 

 Which on the brauncheSy bothe in pleyn and vale, 

 So loude some that at the wode rons^e. 



