Wp/enm/Foweles

A fowel is a fethred beeſt wyþ two leggys and two wyngys. Hit haþ a bile and a feþren teyl, and þe henne liʒþ hire eyren in a nest. Yonge foweles hatten byrdes, or briddes, or chekes, and wurthen fuules whan þai fulwaxen ben, if þai ben nat eten.

Fowelys moun ben grete or smale. Þai eten diuers thyngys and manie maken melodie, or elles greden and crowen. Manie fowles wel cvnnen fleien, and some othre fleien bote febly, and some ne moun fleien nowt. Þe muchel del of fuweles waken and fleien a daʒes, bote sume so don a niʒtes, for exaumple owlys.

Foweles ben icumen of dynoſaures kinne and ſtrind.

Heer ben some fowlys, isortyd after here kynde:

• Chyknes

• Faucouns, þe which biluketh hauekes, and egles, and kytes

• Owlys

• Songbryddes, or Paſserynys, þe which biluketh moſen, and þrestles, and sperwen, and wrennys, and finchys, and crowes, and diuers oþre

• Penguines

• Papeiaies

• Watir fowelys, þe which biluketh dukes, and gees, and swannes

• See mevys

• Duues

• Cuckus

• Ostryches

• Goot suckeres, or Caprimvlgiformys in Leden, þe which biluketh nyght jarrys, and þo swalwes (or martinets) þat me clepeþ swiftes in Newe Englyſshe, and frogge mowþys, and hommende birdys