“As on the way I itinerated,

A rural person I obviated,

Interrogating time’s transitation,

And of the passage demonstration.

My apprehension did ingenious scan

That he was merely a simplician;

So, when I saw he was extravagánt,

Unto the óbscure vulgar consonánt,

I bade him vanish most promiscuously,

And not contaminate my company.”