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pride: ornament.
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quick change: facile innovation.
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time: i.e., the way of the world; fashion.
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compounds: [literary] mixtures. strange: new, innovative.
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still: always.
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invention: imagination or poetic creation. noted weed: i.e., familiar clothing.
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That every word doth almost tell my name: i.e., so that almost every word announces that it is my poetry.
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where: whence.
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argument: theme.