Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/A parrot

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Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles (c. 1820)
Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick
A parrot
4528354Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles — A parrotc/1820Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick



A PARROT.

Cloth'd in yellow, red, and green,
 I prate before the King and Queen;
Of neither house nor land possess'd,
 By lords and knights I am caress'd.