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