Still there is a limit.

The feelings should, indeed, have their ornamental garb; but, like an elegant woman, they should be neither muffled nor exposed.

The drapery should be so arranged, as at once to answer the purposes of modest concealment and judicious display.

The decorations should sometimes be employed to hide a defect, and sometimes to heighten a beauty; but never to conceal, much less to distort, the charms to which they are subsidiary.

The love of Petrarch, on the contrary, arrays itself like a foppish savage, whose nose is bored with a golden ring, whose skin is painted with grotesque forms and dazzling colours, and whose ears are drawn down his shoulders by the weight of jewels.