v. 20. fete] i. e. well made, neat.
v. 22. My proper Parrot, my lytyll prety foole]—proper, i. e. pretty, handsome (elsewhere Skelton uses “proper” and “prety” as synonymes: see note, p. 125. v. 127).
“I pray thee what hath ere the Parret got,
And yet they say he talkes in great mens bowers?
...
A good foole call’d with paine perhaps may be.”
Sidney’s Arcadia, lib. ii. p. 229. ed. 1613.
v. 23. scole] i. e. school.
v. 26. mute] i. e. mew: see note ad l.
v. 30. Quis expedivit psittaco suum chaire]—chaire—ΧΑΙΡΕ. From Persius, Prol. 8.