Frog

A frogge biþ a smale beeſt wiþ foure legges, þe whiche liveþ boþ in water and on londe. Hit biþ ofte tyme broune or grene or yelowe; or be hit tropyckal, hit may hauen dyuers coloures lyk reed, blewe, and blak. Tropyckalle frogges liuyn in trewes. Hit haþ longys and guilles boþe. Þe frogges skyn lokeþ glossi bi cause of his secrecioun, whiche may been poisounous. Moste frogges nauen nought a tayl, an þeire lymes ben yfolden under þeire likame. His frounte two feet hauen foure tos and his bak two feet hauen fif tos. Þes tos stiken wele to wode, rocke and glas. Froggen moste ben in þe watere to spawnen. Þe frogge haccheþ from an ey and hit þanne becomeþ a tadpolle. Hit groweþ to þanne a frogge, yef hit ne be nought eten. Some male frogges maken loude souns wiþ þeire mouþys for to maken þeim selven knowen to femmelles. Some þe femmelles refusen.

Everich frogge et smale boggys and alyke crikets, fliys, been, and wurms to mete. Þei hauen tungis þat been longe and holden faste to quarrie, þat hit nat escape. A frogge may been yfounde on alle contynens bouten for Antartika. Antartika biþ to coold for the frogge.


Mixid cundes of froggen(Anura).
Frogges ben breþren wiþ toades. Toades ben muchel lyk froggen wiþ drye þicke sken. Some men weenen þat þou micht biyeten weartes of toades, ac þis nis nat trewe.

Frogges biþ smale preditours. Crikets, fliys, been, and wurmys eek feren þe frogge.