My Gentle Cock

I Haue a gentil cook,
  crowyt me day;
he dož me rysyn erly,
  my matyins for to say.

I haue a gentil cook,
  comyn he is of gret;
his comb is of reed corel,
  his tayil is of get.

I haue a gentyl cook,
  comyn he is of kynde;
his comb is of red corel,
  his tayl is of Inde.

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