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The _Parrot_ prates he knows not what, / For all he says is got by rote.
The _Parrot_ is a chattering bird, he talks a great deal, yet knows not / what he says; and is therefore not unlike some silly boys, who prate / without thinking, and learn their lesson without looking at their book.