GineAY Ral Ea Resta

How Chanticleer the Cock complained of Reynard
the Fox.

CHANTICLEER marched foremost, smote piteously
his hands and feathers, whilst on the other side
the bier went two sorrowful hens—the one was
Tantart, the other the good hen Cragant, being
two of the fairest hens between Holland and
Arden, these hens bore each of them a straight
bright burning taper, and these hens were
sisters to Copple, which lay dead on the bier,
and in the marching they cried piteously, ‘ Alack
and well-a-day for the death of Coppde, our dear
sister. “Two young hens bare the bier, which
cackled so heavily, and wept so loud for the
death of Cofple their mother, that the hills
gave an echo to their clamour. Thus being
come before the King, Chanticleer, kneeling
down, spake in this manner :

‘Most merciful and my great Lord the