That is, some words of Spanish, Turk, and Greek,

Italian not at all, having no teachers;[BS]Much English I cannot pretend to speak,

Learning that language chiefly from its preachers,

Barrow, South, Tillotson, whom every week

I study, also Blair—the highest reachers

Of eloquence in piety and prose—

I hate your poets, so read none of those.