_To speak in Lutestring_ (Vol. viii., p. 202.).--_Lutestring_, or
_lustring_, is a particular kind of silk, and so is _taffeta_; and thus the
phrase may be explained by Shakspeare's _Love's Labour's Lost_, Act V. Sc.
8.:
"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise."
Junius intended to ridicule such kind of affectation by persons who were,
or ought to have been, grave senators.