SAMUEL BUTLER. 1600 - 1680.

HUDIBRAS.

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,

Was beat with fist instead of a stick.

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We grant, altho' he had much wit,

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He was very shy of using it.

Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek

As naturally as pigs squeak;

That Latin was no more difficile

Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle.

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He could distinguish, and divide

A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side.

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For rhetoric, he could not ope

His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

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For all a rhetorician's rules

Teach nothing but to name his tools.

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For he, by geometric scale,

Could take the size of pots of ale.

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And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike, by Algebra.

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Hudibras continued.]

Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For every why he had a wherefore.

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Where entity and quiddity,

The ghosts of defunct bodies fly.

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He knew what's what, and that's as high1
As metaphysic wit can fly.

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Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.2

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'T was Presbyterian true blue.

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And prove their doctrine orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks.

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Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.

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The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,

For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself for lack

Of somebody to hew and hack.

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1 He said he knew what was what.

come ye not to Courte? Line 1106.

Skelton, Why

2 Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature

hath built many stories high.

State. Andronicus, Ad. fin. 1.

Fuller, Holy and Profane

[Hudibras continued.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses,

With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

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And force them, though it were in spite

Of Nature, and their stars, to write.

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Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat ;1
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."

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Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.2

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With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,

Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.

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Ay me! what perils do environ

The man that meddles with cold iron.3

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Nor do I know what is become

Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.

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He had got a hurt

O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.

1 See Proverbs, p. 610.

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2 And so his Highness schal have thereof, but as had the man that scheryd his Hogge, moche Crye and no Wull. Fortescue (1395-1485), Treatise on Absolute and Limited Monarchy, Ch. x.

3

Ay me, how many perils do enfold

The righteous man, to make him daily fall.

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book i. Canto 8. St. 1.

Hudibras continued.]

For those that run away, and fly,
Take place at least o' th' enemy.1

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I am not now in fortune's power;
He that is down can fall no lower.2

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Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse,
And sayings of philosophers.

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If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in honour's truckle-bed.

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When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.

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Friend Ralph, thou hast

Outrun the constable at last.

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Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before, come after;
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,

I think 's sufficient at one time.

Part ii. Canto i. Line 23.

1 See page 586.

2 Cf. Bunyan, p. 231.

[Hudibras continued.

Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel's of by th' blow;
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.

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Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers

Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

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For what is worth in anything,

But so much money as 't will bring?

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Love is a boy by poets styl'd;

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.1

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The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,

And, like a lobster boiled, the morn

From black to red began to turn.

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Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.

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For truth is precious and divine,

Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

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He that imposes an oath makes it,

Not he that for convenience takes it:

1 He that spareth his rod hateth his son. — - Proverbs, ch. xiii. 24.