, I.iii.1.4: 'Tis superparticular, sesquialtera, sesquitertia […] all those geometric proportions are too little to express it.

Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen, Among thick-woven arborets and flowers.

‘baniak baniak you ole fucker! | you’re tighter than hogan’s goat!’ | baniak only smiles | a perfect smile [footnote] baniak: Ukrainian for cooking pot.

Fortunately, bowerbirds cannot talk, so we are free to use sexual selection to explain their work, without them begging to differ.