Manuscript copy of a didactic poem transcribed from an edition of William Caxton (1422-1491), which was "Emprynted att Westmynstre in Caxtons house by Wynken de worde." Also contains descriptions in the same hand of the woodcuts on the title page and publisher's device from the print version. The poem is about a songbird captured by a peasant so that he can hear her sing in his home. The bird insists to her captor that she will not sing again unless she is freed, so the captor threatens to cook her, but she offers to teach him moral lessons if she is freed. The author explains the poem "out of Frensche a tale to translate which in a paunflete I rede and sawe late" and is possibly a loose translation of the French "Lai de l'oiselet."
