MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE

371        The Claspe

  Give Mee the Free, and Noble Stile,

Which seems uncurb’d, though it be wild:

Though It runs wild about, It cares not where;

It shewes more Courage, then It doth of Feare.

5        Give me a Stile that Nature frames, not Art:

For Art doth seem to take the Pedants part.

And that seemes Noble, which is Easie, Free,

Not to be bound with ore-nice Pedantry.