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At random round about bestow'd.· ́
Then mounted on a horned horse,
One bore a gauntlet and gilt spurs,
Ty'd to the pummel of a long sword
He held revers'd, the point turn'd downward :
Next after, on a raw-bon'd steed,
The conqu❜ror's standard-bearer rid,
And bore aloft before the champion
A petticoat display'd, and rampant?
Near whom the Amazon triumphant
Bestrid her beast, and on the rump on't
Sat face to tail, and bum to bum,
O'the warrior whilom overcome,

Arm'd with a spindle and a distaff,
Which, as he rode, she made him twist off:
And when he loiter'd, o'er her shoulder
Chastis'd the reformado soldier.

Before the dame, and round about,
March'd whifflers, and staffiers on foot,
With lackies, grooms, valets, and pages,
In fit and proper equipages;

Of whom, some torches bore, some links,
Before the proud virago-minx,

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That was both madam and a don,
Like Nero's Sporus, or Pope Joan;
And at fit periods the whole rout

Set up their throats with clam'rous shout.

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way from the others, and is situate on the opposite margin of the moon, (her same side still uppermost,) made up of her dark shadows; he is drawn, with his attributes, in Fig. 31.

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The knight transported, and the squire,
Put up their weapons, and their ire;
And Hudibras, who us'd to ponder
On such sights with judicious wonder,
Could hold no longer to impart

His an'madversions, for his heart.

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Quoth he, In all my life till now

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I ne'er saw so profane a show.

It is a Paganish invention,

Which Heathen writers often mention:
And he who made it, had read Goodwin,

Or Ross, or Cælius Rodigine,

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With all the Grecian Speeds and Stows,
That best describe those ancient shows;
And has obsery'd all fit decorums

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So this insulting female brave

Carries behind her here a slave:
And as the ancients long ago,

When they in field defy'd the foe,

given in fig. 32, with the Amazon sitting behind him, and with all the appendages of both, as described by the poet, and exhibited in the map of the moon; an inspection of

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So her proud standard-bearer here

which will shew the staff-bearers, link-bearers, &c., who close the procession, in minor character.

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