right to their Memories, and for the better Infor-
mation of the lefs learned Readers, to explain
them in fome additional Annotations at the end
of this Edition.

How often the Imitation of this Poem has been
attempted, and with how little fuccefs, I leave the
Readers to judge: In the Year 1663, there came
out a fpurious Book, call'd, The Second Part of
Hudibras; which is reflected upon by our Au-
thor, under the Character of Whacum, towards
the latter End of his Second Part. Afterwards
came out the Dutch and Scotch Hudibras, Butler's
Ghoft, the Occafional Hypocrite, and some others
of the fame Nature, which, compar'd with this,
(Virgil's Travelty excepted) deserve only to be
condemn'd ad Ficum & Piperem; or, if you
pleafe, to more bafe and fervile Offices.

Some vain Attempts have been likewise made
to tranflate fome Parts of it into Latin, but how
far they fall fhort of that Spirit of the English
Wit, I leave the meaneft Capacity, that under-
stands them, to judge. The following Similes I
have heard were done by the Learned Dr. Harmer,
once Greek Profeffor at Oxon :

May'st thou print H- or fome duller Afs,

Jorden, or him, that wrote Dutch Hudibras.

Oldham, upon a Páinter, that had expos'd him, by printing a Piece.
Works 1703. pag. 261.

So

So learned Taliacotius from, &c.

Sic adfcititios nafos de clune torofi Vectoris, doctâ fecuit Taliacotius Arte: Qui potuere parem durando aquare Parentem · At poftquam fato Clunis computruit, ipfum Una fympathicum cæpit tabefcere Roftrum.

So Wind in the Hypocondres pent, &c. Sic Hypocondriacis inclufa meatibus Aura Definet in crepitum, fi fertur prona per alvum, Sed fi fumma petat, montifq; invaferit arcem Divinus furor eft, & confcia Flamma futuri.

So Lawyers, left the Bear Defendant, &c. Sic Legum myfta, ne forfan Pax foret, Urfam Inter furantem fefe, Actoremque Moloffum; Faucibus injiciunt clavos dentifque refigunt, Luctantefque canes coxis, femorifque revellunt. Errores juftafque moras obtendere certis, Judiciumque prius revocare ut prorfus iniquum. Tandem poft aliquod breve refpiramen utrinque, Ut pugnas iterent, crebris hortatibus urgent. Ejá! agite o cives, iterumque in prælia tradunt.

There are some Verses, which, for Reasons of State, eafy to be guefs'd at, were thought fit to be omitted in the firft Impreffion; as these which follow:

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Did not the Learned Glyn and Maynard,
To make good Subjects Traitors, ftrain hard?
Was not the King, by Proclamation,

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Declar'd a Traitor thro' the Nation?

And now I heartily wish I could gratify your farther Curiofity with fome of those Golden Remains which are in the Custody of Mr. L—vil; but not having the Happiness to be very well acquainted with him, nor Interest to procure them, I defire you will be content with the following Copy, which the Ingenious Mr. Aubrey affures me he had from the Author himself.

Serjeant Glyn declar'd, That the Proteftation of the Bishops (in favour of their Rights) was High Treason. Echard's Hift of England, vol. 2. pag. 276. He acted as Judge during Q. Cromwell's Ufurpation. See Thurloe's State Papers, vol. 3. pag. 332.

ď Serjeant Maynard, was a Manager at the Earl of Strafford's Tryal; Echard, vol. 2. p. 216. and though upon the Declaration of no more Addresses to the King, 1647-8. he drew up a famous Argument against that Declaration; fhewing, That by that Refolution, they did, as far as in them lay diffolve the Parliament: and he knew not after that, with what Security in point of Law they could meet together, and joyn with them: Echard, vol. z p. 595. Yet he condefcended during the Ufurpation, to act as Cromwell's Serjeant. When he waited on the Prince of Orange, with the Men of the Law, he was then near ninety, and faid (as Bp. Burnet obferves, Hiftory of his own Time, vol. 1. pag. 803.) "the livelieft thing that was heard 66 of, on that occafion; the Prince took notice of his great age, and "faid, that he had outliv'd all the Men of the Law of his time: "he answered, He had like to have outli'd the Law itself, if His Highness had not come over." If that had happen'd, he had cer

No Jefuit e'er took in hand

To plant a Church in barren Land;
Nor ever thought it worth the while
A Swede or Rufs to reconcile.

For where there is no Store of Wealth,
Souls are not worth the Charge of Health;
Spain, in America had two Defigns
To fell their Gofpel for their Mines.
For had the Mexicans been poor,

No Spaniard twice had landed on their Shore. 'Twas Gold the Catholick Religion planted, Which, had they wantedGold, they still had wanted.

tainly outliv'd it twice. He was very eminent in his profeffion, and made more of it, than any one of his time. Mr. Whitelocke obferves (in his Memorial) That he made 7007. in one Summer's Circuit and to his great Gains in his Profeffion, Mr. Oldham alludes, (fee a Satyr, Oldham's Poems, 1703. pag. 424.)

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Then be advised, the flighted Mufe forfake,
And Cook, and Dalton for thy Study take;
For Fees each Term, fweat in the crowded Hall,
And there for Charters, and crack'd Titles bawl;
Where M- -d thrives, and Pockets more each year,
Than forty Laureats on a Theatre.

* Alluding to the Vote of the Parliament, upon the King's Escape from Hampton Court, November 11, 1647. (though he had left his Reasons for fo doing, in a letter to the Parliament, and an other to the General) "That it should be Confifcation of Estate, and Lofs of "Life without mercy, to any one who detained the King's Person, "without revealing it to the Two Houses." Echard's Hiftory of England, vol. 2. pag. 588.

The

The Oxford Antiquary afcribes to our Author two Pamphlets, fuppofed falfly, as he says, to be William Pryn's; the one entituled, Mola Afinaria: or, The Unreasonable and Infupportable Burthen, press'd upon the Shoulders of this Groaning Nation, &c. London, 1659. in one Sheet 4to. The other, Two Letters, one from John Audland, a Quaker, to Will. Pryn; the other, Pryn's Answer; in three Sheets in Folio, 1672.

I have also seen a small Poem, of one Sheet in Quarto, on Du Vall, a Notorious Highway-man, faid to be wrote by our Author; but how truly, I know not.

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