I' th' middle of his speech, or cough,

H' had hard words, ready to show why,

And tell what rules he did it by:

Else when with greatest art he spoke,

You'd think he talk'd like other folk,

For all a rhetorician's rules

Teach nothing but to name his tools.

But, when he pleas'd to show't his speech

In loftiness of sound was rich;

A Babylonish dialect,