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Quotation by Shakespeare
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
Figures pedantical—these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
I do forswear them, and I here protest,
By this white glove (How white the hand, God knows!),
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed
In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,
Figures pedantical—these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
I do forswear them, and I here protest,
By this white glove (How white the hand, God knows!),
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed
In russet yeas and honest kersey noes.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Berowne, in Love's Labor's Lost, act 5, sc. 2, l. 406-13.
"Russet" and "kersey" were plain and rough kinds of cloth.
"Russet" and "kersey" were plain and rough kinds of cloth.
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