pea-goose

He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Chapman, Cotgrave and others it appears as ‘pea-goose’.] {163} The mistake is far earlier; long before Cowper wrote the sound suggested first this sense, and then this spelling.

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846