Though by Promethean fire made, As they do quack that drive that trade. For as when flovens do amifs At others' doors, by ftool or pifs, The learned write, a red-hot fpit B'ing prudently apply'd to it, Will convey So this did healing, and as fure As that did mifchief, this would cure. 235 240 245 No lefs than dint of fword, could kill. Ver. 238. Unto the part, &c.] Unto the breech, in the two first editions 1663. Armed, as heralds, cant and langued, Or, as the vulgar fay, fharp-fanged: For as the teeth in beafts of prey Are fwords, with which they fight in fray, Which they do eat their vittle with. He was by birth, fome authors write, A Ruffian, fome a Muscovite, And 'mong the Coffacks had been bred, 260 265 Of whom we in Diurnals read, That serve to fill up pages here, As with their bodies ditches there. 270 Scrimaníky was his cousin-german, With whom he serv'd, and fed on vermin ; And when these fail'd, he 'd fuck his claws, And quarter himself upon his paws: 275 Did stew their meat between their bums And th' horfes' backs o'er which they straddle, And every man ate up his faddle; He was not half so nice as they, But ate it raw when 't came in 's way. 280 He 'ad trac'd the countries far and near, More than Le Blanc the traveller, Who writes, he fpous'd in India, Talgol and Orfin oft had been, 285 Each Each striving to deferve the crown Of a fav'd citizen; the one 290 To guard his Bear, the other fought To aid his Dog; both made more stout Never got aught of him but blows; Yet Talgol was of courage ftout, 295 And vanquish'd oftener than he fought; 300 Inur'd to labour, fweat, and toil, And, like a champion, fhone with oil: Right many a widow his keen blade, 305 Bold Sir George, Saint George, did the Dragon. Nor Ver. 299.] A butcher in Newgate-market, who afterwards obtained a captain's commiffion for his rebellious bravery at Nafeby, as Sir R. L'Eftrange obferves. That demi-gods and heroes made, Next these the brave Magnano came, The fury of his armed fist; 325 330 335 340 Nor Ver. 331.] Simeon Wait a tinker, as famous an Independent preacher as Burroughs; who, with equal blafphemy to his Lord of Holts, would ftyle Oliver Cromwell the Archangel giving battle to the Devil. Nor could the hardest ir'n hold out Against his blows, but they would through 't. 345 He could transform himself in colour, 350 As like the hypocrites, in show, Are to true faints, or crow to crow. 355 To make, and how to stop a breach. 360 A lance he bore with iron pike, Th' one half would thruft, the other strike ; And when their forces he had join'd, He scorn'd to turn his parts behind. He Trulla lov'd, Trulla, more bright Than burnish'd armour of her knight; 365 A bold Ver. 365.] The daughter of James Spenfer, debauched by Magnano the tinker. So called, because the tinker's wife or miftrefs was commonly called his trull. See "The Coxcomb," a Comedy. |