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UT now, t' observe romantique method, Let bloody steel awhile be sheathed: And all those harsh and rugged sounds Of bastinadoes, cuts, and wounds, Exchang'd to love's more gentle style, To let our reader breathe awhile: In which, that we may be as brief as Is possible, by way of preface. Is't not enough to make one strange, That some men's fancies should ne'er change, But make all people do and say The same things still the self-same way Some writers make all ladies purloin'd. And knights pursuing like a whirlwind: Others make all their knights, in fits Of jealousy, to lose their wits;