thanks, everybody, I really appreciate it. I also noticed that the British Library record did not give any proper name for the author which I thought was odd. It might be a case of people pretending to be Chaucer to sell more copies. Here is a little more about it, I was hoping to find music for it. There is some music by Peter Quinn titled Six Swans, along with music for titles to other Grimm Fairy Tales, but it didn't look like a fit to me. Anyway, it's beyond my ability to play it.

The Six Swans

Drop, drop salt tears, but voice be dumb,
Toil weary hands till morning come,
My six fair brothers fly white swans,
And I alone may loose their bonds.

Rude stinging nettles must I reap,
And on my back the burden heap,
And beat the hemp and spin the thread
Until six years are come and sped.

That’s the first two verses. It really doesn’t look too singable, to be honest.

I meant that the link I posted before should take you directly to the poem not just to the whole book on the internet. This link might take you to page 4, the beginning of this song or poem.
https://books.google.com/books?id=c6ssAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP15

Six Swans

Thanks again, I'll look up some of the stuff people mentioned.