Tholomye and Haly were cunnyng and wyse In the volvell, in the quadrant, and in the astroloby, To pronostycate truly the chaunce of fortunys dyse; Som trete of theyr tirykis, som of astrology, Som _pseudo-propheta_ with chiromancy:[54] 140 Yf fortune be frendly, and grace be the guyde, Honowre with renowne wyll ren on[55] that syde.
_Monon calon agaton_, Quod Parato _In Græco_.
Let Parrot, I pray you, haue lyberte to prate, For _aurea lingua Græca_ ought to be magnyfyed, Yf it were cond perfytely, and after the rate, As _lingua Latina_, in scole matter occupyed; But our Grekis theyr Greke so well haue applyed, 150 That they cannot say in Greke, rydynge by the way, How, hosteler, fetche my hors a botell of hay!
Neyther frame a silogisme in _phrisesomorum_, _Formaliter et Græce, cum medio termino:_ Our Grekys ye walow in the washbol _Argolicorum_; For though ye can tell in Greke what is _phormio_, Yet ye seke out your Greke in _Capricornio_; For they[56] scrape[57] out good scrypture, and set in a gall, Ye go about to amende, and ye mare all.
Some argue _secundum quid ad simpliciter_, 160 And yet he wolde be rekenyd _pro Areopagita_; And some make distinctions _multipliciter_, Whether _ita_ were before _non_, or _non_[58] before _ita_, Nether wise nor wel lernid, but like _hermaphrodita_: Set _sophia_ asyde, for euery Jack Raker And euery mad medler must now be a maker.
_In Academia_ Parrot dare no probleme kepe; For _Græce fari_[59] so occupyeth the chayre, That _Latinum fari_ may fall to rest and slepe, And _syllogisari_ was drowned at Sturbrydge fayre; 170 Tryuyals[60] and quatryuyals so sore now they appayre, That Parrot the[61] popagay hath pytye to beholde How the rest of good lernyng is roufled[62] vp and trold.
_Albertus de modo significandi_, And _Donatus_ be dryuen out of scole; Prisians hed broken now handy dandy, And _Inter didascolos_ is rekened for a fole; Alexander, a gander of Menanders[63] pole, With _Da Cansales_, is cast out of the gate, And _Da Racionales_ dare not shew his pate. 180
_Plauti_[64] in his comedies a chyld shall now reherse, And medyll with Quintylyan in his Declamacyons,[65] That Pety Caton can scantly construe a verse, With _Aveto in Græco_, and such solempne salutacyons, Can skantly the tensis of his coniugacyons; Settynge theyr myndys so moche of eloquens, That of theyr scole maters lost is the hole sentens.