SAMUEL BUTLER. 1600 - 1680. HUDIBRAS. And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. Parti. Canto i. Line 11. We grant, altho' he had much wit, Parti. Canto i. Line 45. 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. Parti. Canto i. Line 51. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Parti. Canto i. Line 67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Parti. Canto i. Line 81. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Parti. Canto i. Line 89. For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. Parti. Canto i. Line 121. And wisely tell what hour o' th' day Part i. Canto i. Line 125. Hudibras continued.] Whatever sceptic could inquire for, Part i. Canto i. Line 131 Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies fly. Parti. Canto i. Line 145. He knew what's what, and that's as high1 Part i. Canto i. Line 149. Such as take lodgings in a head Part i. Canto i. Line 161. 'T was Presbyterian true blue. Parti. Canto i. Line 191. And prove their doctrine orthodox, Part i. Canto i. Line 199. Compound for sins they are inclined to, Parti. Canto i. Line 215. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, Of somebody to hew and hack. Part i. Canto i. Line 359. 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. Parti. Canto i. Line 463. And force them, though it were in spite Of Nature, and their stars, to write. Parti. Canto i. Line 647. Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat ;1 Parti. Canto i. Line 821. Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.2 Part i. Canto i. Line 852. With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab-tree and old iron rang. Part i. Canto ii. Line 831. Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron.3 Part i. Canto iii. Line 1. Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. Part i. Canto iii. Line 263. He had got a hurt O' th' inside of a deadlier sort. 1 See Proverbs, p. 610. Parti. Canto iii. Line 309. 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, Part i. Canto iii. Line 609. I am not now in fortune's power; Parti. Canto iii. Line 877. Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse, Part i. Canto iii. Line 101I. If he that in the field is slain Parti. Canto iii. Line 1047. When pious frauds and holy shifts Parti. Canto iii. Line 1145. Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1367. Some force whole regions, in despite 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 Part ii. Canto i. Line 221. Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. Part ii. Canto i. Line 297. For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 't will bring? Part ii. Canto i. Line 465. Love is a boy by poets styl'd; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.1 Part ii. Canto i. Line 843. The sun had long since in the lap And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29. Have always been at daggers-drawing, Part ii. Canto ii. Line 79. For truth is precious and divine, Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 257. 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. |