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... Héros du Poëme , Pref- bytérien , & Ralpho fon Ecuyer , In- dépendant ; & dans les converfa- tions & difputes qu'il fait naître en- tr'eux , auffi bien que dans leurs actions , il démafque leur mauvaise foi , & la turpitude de leurs ...
... Héros du Poëme , Pref- bytérien , & Ralpho fon Ecuyer , In- dépendant ; & dans les converfa- tions & difputes qu'il fait naître en- tr'eux , auffi bien que dans leurs actions , il démafque leur mauvaise foi , & la turpitude de leurs ...
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... Héros , Crainte , par de plus longs propos , D'oublier net où nous en fommes , Comme il arrive à fçavans hommes . His puiffant Sword unto his fide , Near his undaunted B V CHANT К 33 Par vastes déserts il paffoit, ...
... Héros , Crainte , par de plus longs propos , D'oublier net où nous en fommes , Comme il arrive à fçavans hommes . His puiffant Sword unto his fide , Near his undaunted B V CHANT К 33 Par vastes déserts il paffoit, ...
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... Hero's in high Prize ; For Authors do affirm it came From Ifthmian or Nemean Game ; Others derive it from the Bear , That's fix'd in Northern Hemisphere , And round about the Pole does make A Circle , like a Bear at Stake › That at the ...
... Hero's in high Prize ; For Authors do affirm it came From Ifthmian or Nemean Game ; Others derive it from the Bear , That's fix'd in Northern Hemisphere , And round about the Pole does make A Circle , like a Bear at Stake › That at the ...
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... Héros le délice ; Car un Auteur grave foutient Que c'est de Grece qu'il nous vient ; Un autre donne sa parole , Que c'eft de l'ours voifin du pole , Autour duquel il tourne ainfi , Qu'un ours enchaîné fait ici Autour de fon champ de ...
... Héros le délice ; Car un Auteur grave foutient Que c'est de Grece qu'il nous vient ; Un autre donne sa parole , Que c'eft de l'ours voifin du pole , Autour duquel il tourne ainfi , Qu'un ours enchaîné fait ici Autour de fon champ de ...
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... Héros . Le deftin fouvent deshérite Du fuccès le plus haut mérite ; L'on voit que parfois les beaux faits Ne font pas fils de grands projets , Et des fuccès que l'on méprise , Suivent fouvent grande entreprise . Auffi parfois , fans la ...
... Héros . Le deftin fouvent deshérite Du fuccès le plus haut mérite ; L'on voit que parfois les beaux faits Ne font pas fils de grands projets , Et des fuccès que l'on méprise , Suivent fouvent grande entreprise . Auffi parfois , fans la ...
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affez ainfi Arfe Arms auffi avoient avoit b'ing Back Beaft Bear Blood Blows bold Butler c'eft c'eſt C'étoit Caufe cauſe Cerdon Chevalier chiens chofe choſe cou'd courage Crodéro Crowdero d'Hudibras d'ours derriere difpute Dogs Enemy eſt étoient étoit ev'ry faid faifant faifoient faifoit fang fans fçavoit felf fell fent ferve feul Fight find foit fome foon fought found fouvent ftill ftout ftraight fuch fuivant good Grace great Ground Hand Head Honour Horfe Hudibras keep knew Knight l'Ecuyer l'Eglife l'ours laiffer leff left Light Loi des Armes lumiere made Magnano make maniere muft n'eft o'er Olivier Cromwell Orfin paffer perfonne Poëme Prefbytériens Quoth Rabble rage raiſon Ralpho refolv'd refte right Saints ſes ſon Squire Steed ſur Sword Synode take Talgol tems thefe thou took Trulla twas twixt Whofe Words wou'd Wound
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Page 18 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 45 - Still they are sure to be i' th' right. 'Tis a dark-lanthorn of the spirit, Which none see by but those that bear it ; A light that falls down from on high, For spiritual trades to cozen by ; An ignis fatuus that bewitches And leads men into pools and ditches, To make them dip themselves, and sound For Christendom in dirty pond ; To dive, like wild-fowl, for salvation, And fish to catch regeneration.
Page 40 - We shall not need to say what lack Of leather was upon his back ; For that was hidden under pad, And breech of Knight, gall'd full as bad: His strutting...
Page 36 - With so much vigour, strength, and heat, That he had almost tumbled over With his own weight, but did recover, By laying hold on tail and mane, Which oft he us'd instead of H in.
Page 20 - Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin ; Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly : Quarrel with minced pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend, plum-porridge ; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose. Th' apostles of this fierce religion, Like Mahomet's, were ass and widgeon.
Page 278 - Honour's a lease for lives to come, And cannot be extended from The legal tenant : 'tis a chattel Not to be forfeited in battle. 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. For as we see th...
Page 8 - He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 70 - From whence, no doubt, th' invention came Of this lewd antichristian game.' To this, quoth Ralpho, ' Verily The point seems very plain to me ; It is an antichristian game, Unlawful both in thing and name. First, for the name ; the word Bear-baiting Is carnal, and of man's creating; For certainly there's no such word In all the Scripture on record ; Therefore unlawful, and a sin ; And so is (secondly) The thing : A vile assembly 'tis, that can No more be prov'el by Scripture, than Provincial, Classic,...
Page 58 - To those that dwell therein well known, Therefore there needs no more be said here, We unto them refer our reader ; For brevity is very good, When w
Page 34 - This sword a dagger had, his page, That was but little for his age...