Note 169 — Chapter III · ORIGINS OF LINES AND STANZAS
Reading edition
The nearest is probably No. 28 in Bartsch, Romanzen und Pastourellen, "Volez vos que je vos chante," with its famous verse about the nightingale and the mermaid. But there is a perpetual tendency to cut the eights to sevens and the sixes to fives, as thus:
Li rosignox est mon pere Qui chante sur la ramee El plus haut boscage. La seraine ele est ma mere Qui chante en la mer salee El plus haut rivage.