_Ic dien_ serueth for the[43] erstrych[44] fether, 80 _Ic dien_ is the language of the land of Beme; In Affryc tongue _byrsa_ is a thonge of lether; In Palestina there is Ierusalem. _Colostrum_ now for Parot, whyte bred and swete creme! Our Thomasen[45] she doth trip, our Ienet she doth shayle: Parrot hath a blacke beard and a fayre grene tayle.
Moryshe myne owne shelfe, the costermonger sayth;[46] Fate, fate, fate, ye Irysh[47] water lag; In flattryng fables men fynde but lyttyl fayth: But _moveatur terra_, let the world wag; 90 Let syr Wrig wrag[48] wrastell with syr Delarag;[49] Euery man after his maner of wayes, _Pawbe une aruer_, so the Welche man sayes.
Suche shredis of sentence, strowed in the shop Of auncyent Aristippus and such other mo, I gader togyther and close in my crop,[50] Of my wanton conseyt, _unde depromo_ _Dilemmata docta in pædagogio_ _Sacro vatum_, whereof to you I breke: I pray you, let Parot haue lyberte to speke. 100
But ware the cat, Parot, ware the fals cat! With, Who is there? a mayd? nay, nay, I trow: Ware ryat, Parrot, ware ryot, ware that! Mete, mete for Parrot, mete, I say, how! Thus dyuers of language by lernyng I grow: With, Bas me, swete Parrot, bas me, swete swete; To dwell amonge ladyes Parrot is mete.
Parrot, Parrot, Parrot, praty popigay! With my beke I can pyke my lyttel praty too; My delyght is solas, pleasure, dysporte, and pley; 110 Lyke a wanton, whan I wyll, I rele to and froo: Parot can say, _Cæsar, ave_, also; But Parrot hath no fauour to Esebon: Aboue all other byrdis, set Parrot alone.
_Ulula_, Esebon, for Ieromy doth wepe! Sion is in sadnes, Rachell ruly doth loke; Madionita Ietro, our Moyses kepyth his shepe; Gedeon is gon, that Zalmane vndertoke, Oreb _et_ Zeb, of _Judicum_ rede the boke; Now Geball, Amon, and Amaloch,—harke, harke! 120 Parrot pretendith to be a bybyll clarke.
O Esebon, Esebon! to thé is cum agayne Seon, the regent _Amorræorum_, And Og, that fat hog of[51] Basan, doth retayne, The crafty _coistronus Cananæorum_;[52] And _asylum_, whilom _refugium miserorum_, _Non fanum, sed profanum_, standyth in lyttyll sted: _Ulula_, Esebon, for Iepte is starke ded!
Esebon, Marybon, Wheston next Barnet; A trym tram for an horse myll it were a nyse thyng; 130 Deyntes for dammoysels, chaffer far fet: Bo ho doth bark wel, but Hough ho he rulyth[53] the ring; From Scarpary to Tartary renoun therin doth spryng, With, He sayd, and we said, ich wot now what ich wot, _Quod magnus est dominus Judas Scarioth_.