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.

637. The last principal person of the procession is

The knight transported, and the squire,
their weapons, and their ire;
And Hudibras, who us'd to ponder

Put up

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

We find describ'd by old historians:

For as the Roman conqueror,

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That put an end to foreign war,

Ent'ring the town in triumph for it,

Bore a slave with him in his chariot;

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,

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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

Hung out their mantles della guerre ;
So her proud standard-bearer here

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

Waves on his spear, in dreadful manner
A Tyrian petticoat for banner.
Next links and torches, heretofore
Still borne before the emperor.
And as, in antic triumphs, eggs

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Were borne for mystical intrigues;

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There's one in truncheon, like a ladle,

That carries eggs too, fresh or addle;
And still at random, as he goes,

Among the rabble-rout bestows.

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Is but a riding, us'd of course,

When the gray-mare's the better horse;

When o'er the breeches greedy women
Fight, to extend their vast dominion;

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For when men by their wives are cow'd,
Their horns of course are understood.
Quoth Hudibras, Thou still giv'st sentence
Impertinently, and against sense.

691. It is scarcely necessary to point out the egg and the ladle, as constituted by one of the principal rays of the star-like explosion of light so often alluded to, and situate near the southern margin of the moon. The thrower of the egg has the same prototype there as constitutes the gauntlet-bearer of fig. 31, ante.

'Tis not the least disparagement, To be defeated by th' event,

Nor to be beaten by main force;

That does not make a man the worse,
Although his shoulders with battoon

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Be claw'd and cudgell'd to some tune;

A tailor's 'prentice has no hard

Measure, that's bang'd with a true yard:
But to turn tail, or run away,

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As antichristian and lewd;

And we, as such, should now contribute
Our utmost strugglings to prohibit.

This said, they both advanc'd, and rode
A dog-trot through the bawling croud,
T'attack the leader, and still prest,
Till they approach'd him breast to breast.

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