Great actions are not always true fons 885 890 Our actions ftill have borne us out; Which though they 're known to be so ample, We need not copy from example; 895 We're not the only perfon durft To whom we have been oft compar'd 905 For perfon, parts, addrefs, and beard; Both equally reputed stout, And in the fame cause both have fought; He Ver. 904.] The writers of the General Historical Dictionary, vol. vi. p. 291, imagine, "That the chaẩm "here is to be filled with the words Sir Samuel Luke, "because the line before it is of ten fyllables, and the "measure of the verfe generally used in this Poem is "of eight." Certes our authors are to blame, То сору out in frays and fights (Like those that a whole street do raze A man that 's handsome, valiant, wife, His wit, his beauty, and his spirit ;, Because he 's tall, and has large bones,. As men kill beavers for their ftones.. 35. And as an equal friend to both The Knight and Bear, but more to Troth, But give to each his due defert, 40 And And never coin a formal lie on 't, They rode, but authors having not 45 50 But let that país; they now begun To fpur their living engines on: For as whipp'd tops and bandy'd balls, 55 The learned hold, are animals; So horfes they affirm to be Mere engines made by Geometry, Was to be wag'd 'twixt puiflant cattle That came to aid their brethren; ба 65 Who now began to take the field, VOL. I. 70 For For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick-back on the old, All poftures of the enemy: Wherefore he bids the Squire ride further, 75 80 85 90 From rufty durance he bail'd tuck: Then Ver. 74. Rais'd on, &c.] From off, in the two first editions of 1663. Ver. 85, 86.] Thus altered, 1674, Courage within, and steel without, To give and to receive a rout. Ver. 92.] Thus altered, 1674, He clear'd at length the rugged tuck. Then hook himself, to see that prowess 95 100 105 Inftead Ver. 99, 100.] Thus altered in the edition of 1674, The Squire advanc'd with greater speed Than could b' expected from his steed. Restored in 1704. Ver. 101, 102.] But with a great deal more return'd -For now the foe he had difcern'd-In the two firk editions of 1663. Ver. 106.] So called, from croud, a fiddle. This was one Jackson, a milliner, who lived in the New Exchange in the Strand. He had formerly been in the fervice of the Roundheads, and had loft a leg in it; this brought him to decay, fo that he was obliged to fcrape upon a fiddle, from one alehoufe to another, for his bread. Mr. Butler very judiciously places him at the head of his catalogue; for country diverfions are generally attended with a fiddler or bagpiper. I would |