Nor put up Blow, but that which laid Great on the Bench, Great in the Saddle, That cou'd as well bind o'er, as fwaddle: 25 Mighty he was at both of thefe, And styl'd of War as well as Peace. .19,20. Nor put up Blow, but that which laid-Right Worshipful on Shoulder-blade.] Alluding to the Blow the King laid on his Shoulder with a Sword, when he Knighted him; to this he refers 2d Part. Canto 1. . 235,236. Th' old Romans freedom did beflow, Our Prince's Worship with a Blow. and to fome of the other Ceremonies of Knighthood: Part 1. Canto 2. .742,743. Was I for this intitled Sir, And girt with rufty Sword and Spur? In the time of Charles the Great, the way of Knighting by the Colophum, or giving a Blow on the Ear, was used in fign of fuftaining future hardships. (fee Ahmole's Hiftory of the Garter, p. 36.) The Accolade, or ceremony of embracing the Knight, (a ceremony often mention'd by the Writer of Amadis de Gaul,) was first perform'd by the Emperour Charles the Great, upon Knighting his Son Lewis Debonair. (Afhmole id. ib.) The cuftomary way of Knighting at this time, (fee Sir William Segar's book, intitled, Of Honour Civil and Military, lib. 2. chap. 2. p. 74.) is as follows; "He that is to be made Knight, is ftricken by the Prince with << a Drawn Sword upon his Back or Shoulder; the Prince faying "Says Chevalier, (Soy Chivaler, a Nome de Dieu; Guillim, part 2. p. 226.) and in times paft, was added Saint George: and when "the Knight rifeth, the Prince faith, Avance." This is the manner of dubbing Knights at this prefent, and the word dubbing was the old word, and not creating (fee Afhmole, p.40. Selden's Titles of Honour, 2a edit. 2d part, chap. 1, 2. Hiftorical Effay on Nobility, 2. edit. vol. 2. p. 554.) Mowbray Duke of Norfolk upon Bolin broke's Challenge, (fee Shakespear's King Richard the Second, Act. 1. p. 258. Mr. Theobald's firft edit. vol.3. 1733.) and throwing down his Gantlet, fays, "I take it up, and by this Sword I fwear-Which gently 30 35 Are either for the Land or Water.) "gently laid my Knighthood on my Shoulder, I'll answer "thee in any fair Degree, or Chivalrous Design of Trial." Sir Kenelm Digby tells us (fee Difcourfe concerning the Cure of Wounds by the Powder of Sympathy, p. 105.) that when King James the First, who had an Antipathy to a Sword, dubb'd him Knight, had not the Duke of Buckingham guided his hand aright, in lieu of touching his Shoulder, he had certainly run the point of it into his Eyes. (fee the manner in which the Innkeeper dubb'd Don Quixot Knight. part 1. book 1. chap.3.) .22. Either for Chartel] Chartel fignifies a Letter of Defiance, or Challenge to a Duel, in ufe when Combates were allowed to decide difficult Controverfies, not otherwife to be determined by Law. (fee Cowel's and Manley's Interpreters, and facob's Law Dictionary.) A Tryal (and the laft) of this kind, was intended between the Marquis of Hamilton, and the Lord Rea, in the year 1631, but the King put an end to the difpute. (Echard's Hiftory of England, vol. II. p. 97.) In this fenfe Lord Roos ufes the word, in his Anfwer to the Marquis of Dorchester's Letter, Feb. 25 1659. p. 5. "You had better have "been drunk, and fet in the Stocks for it, when you sent the Poft "with a whole packet of Chartels for me." (fee an account of Duelling, Tatler N°93. and of Tryals of Titles in this way, Salmon's Hift. of Hertfordshire, p. 178, 179, 180, 181. Mezeray produces one intance of a Combat in tryal of a Perfon's Innocency as early as the year 628. fee Hift. of France, tranflated by Bulteel. p.4. 23. Great on the Bench, Great in the Saddle.] In this Character of Hudibras, all the Abuses of human Learning are finely fatyriz'd: Philofophy, Logic, Rhetoric, Mathematics, Methaphyfics, and SchoolDivinity. (Mr. W.) . 24. That cou'd as well bind d'er, as fwaddle.] Swaddle, bang, cudgel, or drub, fee Baily's Dictionary. A 4 $.38 For't has been held by many, that As Montaigne, playing with his Cat, Complains the thought him but an Afs, 40 Much more fhe wou'd Sir Hudibras; (For that's the Name our valiant Knight To all his Challenges did write.) But they're mistaken very much, 'Tis plain enough he was no fuch: grant, altho' he had much Wit, H'was very shy of using it; 45 We As being loath to wear it out, And therefore bore it not about; .38. As Montaigne, playing with his Cat, Complains he thought bim but an Afs.] When I am playing with my Cat (fays Montaigne, Efays, book 2. chap. 12.) "who knows whether the hath more fport in dallying with me, than I have in gaming with her? we enterstain one another with mutual Apish Tricks" &c. How artfully is this fimple humour in Montaigne ridiculed in a pretty Simile. But we are in a more refined Age than that which Butler lived in, and this humour is rather applauded than condemn'd. See an Account of Ifaac Bickerstaff's playing with his Cat. Tatler. (Mr.B.) .40. Much more he wou'd Sir Hudibras.] Jeffrey of Monmouth (Bishop of St. Asaph) makes mention of a British King of this Name, who lived about the time of Solomon, and reigned thirty-nine years; he compofed all Diffenfions among his People, and built Kaerlem or Canterbury, Kaerguen or Winchefter, and the Town of Paladur now Shaftsbury (fee his British Hiftory tranflated by Thompson, c.9. p. 48. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, by Hearne, vol. 1. p. 28. Fabian's Chronicle, part 1. c.12. fol. edit. 1516. Spenfer's Fairy Queen, book 2, canto x, 5. 25. vol.2. p.315. Hughes's edit. Somner's Antiq.of Canter bury, 4to. 1640. p. 3.) I am of opinion that Mr. Butler rather alludes to one of Spenfer's Knights, (see Fairy Queen, book 2. canto 2. §17.) He, that made love unto the eldeft Dame, Was hight Sir Hudibras, an hardy Man; Yet not fo good of Deeds, as great of Name, Which he by many rash Adventures wan; Since Errant Arms to few he first began. (follow) Unless on Holy-days, or fo, 50 As Men their best Apparel do. Befide, 'tis known he cou'd fpeak Greek That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a Blackbird 'tis to whistle: 55 Being rich in both, he never scanted His Bounty unto fuch as wanted; But much of either wou'd afford To many, that had not one Word. For Hebrew Roots, altho' they're found 60 To flourish moft in barren Ground, .51, 52. Befide, 'tis known he cou'd fpeak Greek, As naturally as Pigs Squeak.] He Greek and Latin fpeaks with greater eafe, Panegeric Verfes upon Tom Coriat, and his Crudities; *.53,54. That Latin was no more difficile,-Than to a Black-bird 'tis to whistle.] Sancho Pancha obferves upon Don Quixot, (vol.3. chap. 28. pag. 274.), "That he is a main Scholard, latins it 66 hugely, and talks his own Mother-tongue as well as one of your "Varfity Doctors." The Country People were in those days fond of hearing latin in Sermons, as appears from the following account of Dr. Pocock, (fee his Life by Dr. Twells prefixed to his Works, p. 22.) "one of the learned Dr. Pocock's Friends, paffing through Childrey, "which was the Doctor's Living, enquired who was the Minister, "and how they liked him; and received from them this Answer, Our Parfon is one Mr. Pocock, a plain, honeft Man; but Mafter, “ said they, He is no Latiner 55,56. ·be never scanted - His Bounty unto fuch as wanted.] This is the property of a pedantick Coxcomb, who prates most learnedly amongit illiterate perfons; and makes a mighty pother about Books and Languages there, where he is fure to be admired, tho' not understood. 59. For Hebrew Roots although they're found] Dr. Echard. (fee Defence of his Reafons for the Contempt of the Clergy, &c. intitled, Grounds He had such plenty, as fuffic'd To make some think him circumcis'd: Not as a Profelyte, but for Claps. A Hair 'twixt South and South-west side; 66 Grounds and Reasons, &c. p. 114) tells us, "that some are of opi“nion, that Children may speak Hebrew at four years of age, if "they be brought up in a Wood, and fuck of a Wolf." and Sir Thomas Browne obferves, (Vulgar Errours, book 5. chap. 22.) “ that "Children in the School of Nature, without Inftitution, would naturally speak the Primitive Language of the World, was the opinion of the Ancient Heathens; and continued fince by Chrif tians, who will have it our Hebrew Tongue, as being the Language of Adam." 66 66 .60. To flourish moft in barren ground.] If fo, why may we not infer that German Monk to have been a Wag, who taking a catalogue of a Friend's Library, and meeting with a Hebrew Book in it, entered it under the title of A Book that has the beginning where the end fhould be. fee Tatler N° 239. * .62. To make fome think him circumcis'd.] Here again is an alteration without any amendment; for the following Lines, And truly fo he was, perhaps, Not as a Profelyte, but for Claps, are thus changed in the editions of 1674. 1684. 1689. 1694. 1700, And truly fo perhaps he was, 'Tis many a pious Chriftian's cafe. Reftor'd in the edition of 1704. the Heathens had an odd Opinion, and gave a ftrange Reafon why Mofes impofed the Law of Circumcifion on the Jews, which how untrue foever, I will give the learned Reader an Account of, without Tranflation, as I find it in the Annotations upon Horace, wrote by my worthy and learned Friend Mr. William Baxter, the great Reftorer of the ancient, and Promoter of modern Learning. Hor. fat. 9. fermon. lib. 1. Curtis, quia pellicula imminuti funt; quia Mofes Rex Judæorum, cujus Legibus reguntur, negligentia eis medicinaliter exfectus eft et |