_Secundum Skeltonida famigeratum,_ _In Piereorum catalogo numeratum._
_Itaque consolamini invicem in verbis istis, &c._[76]
_Candidi lectores, callide callete; vestrum fovete Psittacum, &c._[77]
[Sidenote: Hic occurrat[78] memoriæ Pamphilus de amore Galatheæ.]
Speke, Parotte, I pray yow, for Maryes saake, Whate mone he made when Pamphylus loste hys make.
[Sidenote: In ista cantilena[79] ore stilla plena abjectis frangibulis et aperit.]
My propire Besse, 240 My praty Besse, Turne ones agayne to me: For slepyste thou, Besse, Or wakeste thow, Besse, Myne herte hyt ys with thé.
[Sidenote: Quid quæritis tot capita, tot census?]
My deysy delectabyll, My prymerose commendabyll, My vyolet amyabyll, My ioye inexplicabill, Nowe torne agayne to me. 250
I wylbe ferme and stabyll, And to yow seruyceabyll, And also prophytabyll, Yf ye be agreabyll To turne agayne to me, My propyr Besse.
[Sidenote: Maro: Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella, Et fugit ad salices, &c.]
Alas, I am dysdayned, And as a man halfe maymed, My harte is so sore payned! I pray thé, Besse, vnfayned, 260 Yet com agayne to me! Be loue I am constreyned To be with yow retayned, Hyt wyll not be refrayned: I pray yow, be reclaymed, And torne agayne to me, My propyr Besse.
_Martialis cecinit carmen fit mihi scutum:—_ _Est mihi lasciva pagina, vita proba.[81]_
[Sidenote: Zoe kai psyche.[82] Non omnes capiunt verbum istud, sed quibus datum est desuper.]
Now kus me, Parrot, kus me, kus, kus, kus:[83] Goddys blessyng lyght on thy swete lyttyll[84] mus! 270 _Vita et anima,_ _Zoe kai psyche._[85]
_Concumbunt[87] Græce. Non est hic sermo pudicus._
[Sidenote: Sua consequentia[88] magni æstimatur momenti Attica sane eloquentia.]
_Ergo_[89] _Attica[90] dictamina_ _Sunt[91] plumbi lamina,_ _Vel[92] spuria vitulamina:_ _Avertat hæc[93] Urania!_[94]
_Amen, Amen_,[95] And set to[96] a D, And then it is, Amend Our new found A, B, C.
Go, litell quayre, namyd the Popagay, 280 Home to resorte Jerobesethe perswade; For the cliffes of Scaloppe they rore wellaway, And the sandes of Cefas begyn to waste and fade, For replicacion restles that he of late ther made; Now Neptune and Eolus ar agreed of lyclyhode, For Tytus at Dover abydythe in the rode;
Lucina she wadythe among the watry floddes, And the cokkes begyn to crowe agayne the day; _Le tonsan de Jason_ is lodgid among the shrowdes, Of Argus revengyd, recover when he may; 290 Lyacon of Libyk and Lydy hathe cawghte hys pray: Goe, lytyll quayre, pray them that yow beholde, In there remembraunce ye may be inrolde.