Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
Paradise Lost
Comus, Line 790 (Can be read with a touch of playful irony, admiring but also perhaps slightly mocking the 'dazzling fence' of wit)
1634
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Shocking