Note 33 — SPEKE, PARROT.[1] THE BOKE[2] COMPILED BY MAISTER SKELTON, POET LAUREAT, CALLED SPEAKE, PARROT.
Reading edition
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.