That pereles pomegarnet, Chryst saue her noble grace!
Parrot, saves[19] habler Castiliano, 40
With fidasso de cosso[20] in Turkey and in Trace;
Vis consilii expers,[21] as techith me Horace,
Mole ruit sua, whose dictes ar[22] pregnaunte,
Souentez foys,[23] Parrot, en souenaunte.
Sæpenumero hæc pensitans psittacus ego pronuntio.[24] Aphorismo, quia paronomasia certe incomprehensibilis.
My lady maystres,[25] dame Philology,
Gaue me a gyfte in my nest whan I[26] laye,
To lerne all language, and it to spake aptely: