The First and Second Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. CORRECTED & AMENDED, With Several Additions and Annotations. LONDON: Printed by T. N. for John Martyn and Henry HUDIBRAS. The ARGUMENT of the First CANTO. Sir Hudibras his passing worth, W CANTO I. Hen civil fury first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: A Wight he was, whose very sight wou'd That never bent his stubborn knee Nor put up blow, but that which laid Great on the Bench, Great in the Saddle, As Mountaigne playing with his Cat, Beside, 'tis known he could speak Greek, As naturally as Pigs squeek: That Latine was no more difficile, Than to a Black-bird 'tis to whistle. Being rich in both, he never scanted To make some think him circumcis'd: He was in Logick a great Critick, A Hair 'twixt South and South-West side: All this by Syllogism, true In mood and Figure, he would do. For Rhetorick he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a Trope: In loftiness of sound was rich, |