My proper Parrot, my lyttyl prety foole;
With ladyes I lerne, and go with them to scole.
Psittacus a vobis aliorum nomina disco: Hoc per me didici dicere,[11] Cæsar, ave.
Hagh, ha, ha, Parrot, ye can laugh pretyly!
Parrot hath not dyned of al this[12] long day:
Lyke your[13] pus cate, Parrot can mute and cry
In Lattyn, in Ebrew, Araby, and Caldey;[14]
In Greke tong Parrot can bothe speke and say,
As Percyus, that poet, doth reporte of me,
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