A PARROT-TEACHER. 
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heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love 
now. 
Beat. A dear happiness to women ; they would else 
have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank 
God, and my cold blood, I am of your humour for 
that; I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a 
man swear he loves me. 
Bejied. God keep your ladyship still in that mind ! so 
some gentleman or other shall ’scape a predestinate 
scratched face. 
Beat. Scratching could not make it worse, an ’twere 
such a face as yours were. 
Bened. Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher 
Beat. A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of 
yours. 
Bened. I would my horse had the speed of your 
tongue, and so good a continuer: but keep your way, 
o’ God’s name! I have done. 
Beat. You always end with a jade’s trick : I know you 
of old.” 
[Whereupon Don Pedro steps in and puts an end to this 
bantering.] 
Much Ado about Nothing, Act i. Sc. 1. 
The “Popinjay” ( Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3) 
apparently is only another name for parrot. 
In the Glossary to Chaucer’s Works we find the word 
* Compare “ Redbreast-teacher," Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. i. 
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