Juft fo the proud infulting lafs
Array'd and dighted Hudibras.

Mean while the other champions, yerst

930 In hurry of the fight difpers'd,

Arriv'd, when Trulla won the day,
To share in th' honour and the prey,
And out of Hudibras his hide

With vengeance to be fatisfy'd;

935 Which now they were about to pour
Upon him in a wooden show'r;
But Trulla thrust herself between,
And ftriding o'er his back again,

frantic Pliny, Horatius. Pantaloons, a garment confifting of breeches and stockings fastened together, and both of the fame ftuff.

"Be not these courtly coy ducks, whose repute
Swol'n with ambition of a gaudy fuit,

Or fome outlandish gimp thigh'd pantaloon,
A garb fince Adam's time was fcarcely known."

The Chimney Scuffle, London, 1663, p. 3. The fashions of the French, which prevailed much at that time, are humorously expofed by the author of a tract, entitled, The fimple Cobler of Agawam in America, willing to help his native country lamentably tattered both in the upper leather and fole, with all the honeft ftitches he can take, 3d ed. 1647, p. 24, &c. and fince by Dr. Baynard, fee Hiftory of Cold Baths, part ii. p. 226, edit. 1706. "The pride of life fays he) is indeed the torment and trouble of it: but whilft the devil, that fpiritual Taylor, prince of the air, can fo eafily step to France, and monthly fetch us new fashions, it is never likely to be otherwife."

v. 928.dighted.] Vid. Skinneri Etymolog. Junii Etymologic.

v.929, 930. Mean while the other champions, yerft—In hurry of the fight difpers d.] Erft, or yerft, in Chaucer, fignifies in carneft. "But now at erft will I begin

To expone you the pith within."

The Romaunt of the Rofe, Chaucer's Works, 1602, f. 141.

See

She brandish'd o'er her head her sword, 940 And vow'd they should not break her word;

Sh' had given him quarter, and her blood
Or their's should make that quarter good:
For fhe was bound by law of arms
To fee him safe from further harms.
945 In dungeon deep Crowdero, caft
By Hudibras, as yet lay fast;

Where, to the hard and ruthless stones,
His great heart made perpetual moans;
Him fhe refolv'd that Hudibras

950 Should ransom and supply his place.

This stopp'd their fury, and the basting
Which toward Hudibras was hafting.
They thought it was but just and right,
That what she had achiev'd in fight
955 She should dispose of how she pleas'd;
Crowdero ought to be releas'd:

Nor could that any way be done
So well as this fhe pitch'd upon;

For who a better could imagine? 960 This therefore they refolv'd t'engage in. The Knight and Squire first they made

See Prologue to Chaucer's Legend of good Women, fol. 186. In Spenfer it fignifies formerly.

" He then afresh, with new encouragement,

Did him affayl, and mightily amate,

As faft as forward earft, now backward to retreat."

Fairy Queen, b. 4. canto iii. ftan. 16. vol. iii. p. 583.

v. 963,