[405] Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper’s song!

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,

[407] Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,

Figures pedantical; these summer-flies

Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:

410 I do forswear them; and I here protest,

By this white glove,—how white the hand, God knows!—

Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express’d

In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes:

And, to begin, wench,—so God help me, la!—