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I HAVE A GENTLE COCK by ANONYMOUS

First Line: I HAVE A GENTLE [GENTILE] COCK [COK] [COOK]
Last Line: AND EVERY NIGHT HE PERCHETH HIM / IN MY [MINE] LADY'S [LADYE'S] CHAMBER [CHAUMBER]
Subject(s): ROOSTERS; COCKS;
I have a gentle cock
Croweth me day;
He doth me risen early
My matins for to say.
I have a gentle cock
Comen he is of great;
His comb is of red coral;
His tail is of jet.
I have a gentle cock
Comen he is of kind;
His comb is of red coral;
His tail is of inde.
His legges been of azure
So gentle and so small;
His spurres are of silver white
Into the wortewale.
His eyen are of crystal
Locken all in amber;
And every night he percheth him
In my lady's chamber.





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