[2] _The boke, &c.... Speake, Parrot_] So Marshe’s ed. Not in other eds.
[3] _recipit_] MS. “_recepit_.” The next two lines are given very inaccurately here in MS., but are repeated (with a slight variation) more correctly at the end of the poem. The Latin portions of the MS. are generally of ludicrous incorrectness, the transcriber evidently not having understood that language.
[4] _Lucanus_] See _Phar._ iii. 256. But the line here quoted is from Boethii _Consol. Phil._ lib. v. met. 1.
[5] _wonderous_] So other eds. Lant’s ed. “wonderuos.”
[6] _to greate ladyes_] MS. “_to_ grece to lordes.”
[7] _ful mekely with many a diuers_] MS. “_full_ meryly _with many dyuors_.”
[11] _dicere_] MS. (which alone has these marginal notes) “_dictorem:_” the whole runs in Martial thus:
“_Psittacus a vobis aliorum nomina_ discam: _Hoc didici per me dicere, Cæsar, ave_.”
[12] _this_] Ed. of Kynge and Marche, “thie.”
[13] _your_] MS. “ower.”—In this line a friend would read “muie;” but MS. has “mewte.”
[14] _Ebrew, Araby, and Caldey_] MS. “_Ebrue and_ in _Caldee_.”
[15] _Dowse_] Other eds. “Howse.” MS. “Dowche.”
[16] _can supple_] MS. “_can_ shewe propyrlye.”
[18] _ryall_] Other eds. and MS. (with various spelling) “roial.”
[19] _saves_] So MS. Eds. “_sauies:_”—“_habler_” ought to be “_hablar_;” but throughout this work I have not altered the spelling of quotations in _modern_ languages, because probably Skelton wrote them inaccurately.
[20] _fidasso de cosso_] So MS. Eds. of Lant, and of Kynge and Marche, “sidasso _de cosso_.” Eds. of Day, and of Marshe, “sidasso _de_ costo.” See notes.
[23] _Souentez foys, &c._] This line found only in Lant’s ed. and MS. The latter has “_Souentem_,” (or “_Sonentem_,”) &c.
[24] _pronuntio_] Probably not the right reading. The MS. seems to have either “pō sio” or “pō fio.”
[25] _maystres_] Other eds. “maysters” and “maisters.”
[27] _mory_] MS. “mery:” but the context seems to confirm the other reading.
[33] _Besy, besy, &c._] Instead of this stanza, MS. has,—
“_Besy, besy, besy, and Besynes agayne_ _Thus parott dothe pray yow with herte moste tentyr,” &c._
omitting what occurs between the first of these lines and the second (p. 11) in eds.
[34] _maturato_] Other eds. “_marturato_.”