[Sidenote: Katerina universalis vitii ruina, Græcum est. Fidasso de cosso, i. habeto fidem in temet ipso. Auctoritate[m] inconsultam taxat hic. Lege Flaccum, et observa plantatum diabolum.]
With Kateryne incomparable, our ryall[18] quene also, 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_.
[Sidenote: 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: Now _pandez mory_,[27] wax frantycke, some men[28] saye; Phroneses for[29] Freneses may not holde her way. An almon now for Parrot, dilycatly drest; 50 In _Salve festa dies, toto_ theyr doth[30] best.
[Sidenote: Aptius hic loquitur animus quam lingua. Notum adagium et exasperans.]
_Moderata juvant_, but _toto_ doth excede; Dyscressyon is moder of noble vertues all; _Myden[31] agan_ in Greke[32] tonge we rede; But reason and wyt wantyth theyr prouyncyall When wylfulnes is vycar generall. _Hæc res acu tangitur_, Parrot, _par ma foy_: _Ticez vous_, Parrot, _tenez vous coye_.
Besy, besy,[33] besy, and besynes agayne! _Que pensez voz_, Parrot? what meneth this besynes? 60 _Vitulus_ in Oreb troubled Arons brayne, Melchisedeck mercyfull made Moloc mercyles; To wyse is no vertue, to medlyng, to restles; In mesure is tresure, _cum sensu maturato_;[34] _Ne tropo sanno,[35] ne tropo mato_.
Aram was fyred with Caldies fyer called Ur; Iobab[36] was brought vp in the lande of Hus;[37] The lynage of Lot toke supporte of Assur; Iereboseth is Ebrue, who lyst the cause[38] dyscus. Peace, Parrot, ye prate, as ye were _ebrius_: 70 Howst thé, _lyuer god van hemrik, ic seg_; In Popering[39] grew peres, whan Parrot was an eg.
What is this to purpose? Ouer in a whynnymeg![40] Hop Lobyn of Lowdeon wald haue e[41] byt of bred; The iebet of Baldock was made for Jack Leg; An arrow vnfethered and without an hed, A bagpype[42] without blowynge standeth in no sted: Some run to far before, some run to far behynde, Some be to churlysshe, and some be to kynde.