A bold virago, stout and tall, As Joan of France, or English Mall : Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin fhe follow'd him 370 And never him or it forfook : 375 Than th' Amazonian Dame Penthefile. And though fome critics here cry shame, 380 Ver. 368.] Alluding, probably, to Mary Carlton, called Kentish Moll, but more commonly The German Princefs; a perfon notorious at the time this First Part of Hudibras was published. She was tranfported to Jamaica 1671; but returning from tranfportation too foon, fhe was hanged at Tyburn Jan. 22, 1672-3. Ver. 382.] This and the three following lines not in the two first editions of 1663. To government, which they suppose It Shall be depos'd by thofe have seen 't, The upright Cerdon next advanc't, 400 405 410 Cerdon Ver. 409. Cerdon] A one-eyed cobler, like his brother Colonel Hewfon. The Poet obferves, that his chief talent lay in preaching. Is it not then indecent, and beyond the rules of decorum, to introduce him into fuch rough company? No; it is probable he had but newly fet up the trade of a Teacher; and we may conclude that the Poet did not think that he had fo much fanctity as to debar him the pleasure of his beloved diverfion of Bear-baiting. Cerdon the Great, renown'd in song, On him in Mufes' deathlefs writ. He had a weapon keen and fierce, 415 That through a bull-hide shield would pierce, Though tougher than the Knight of Greece's, 420 With whom his black-thumb'd ancestor Was comrade in the ten-years' war: For when the reftlefs Greeks fat down And were renown'd, as Homer writes, 425 For well-fol'd boots no less than fights, And would make three to cure one flaw. Transcribe, colle&, translate, and quote : 435 He Ver. 435.] Mechanics of all forts were then Preachers, and fome of them much followed and ad He us'd to lay about and stickle, For mired by the mob. "I am to tell thee, Chriftian “Reader,” (says Dr. Featley, preface to his Dipper dipp'd, wrote 1645, and published 1647, p. 1.) " This 66 new year of new changes, never heard of in former ages, namely, of stables turned into temples, and I "will beg leave to add, temples turned into ftables "(as was that of St. Paul's, and many more), ftalls "into quires, shopboards into communion-tables, tubs "into pulpits, aprons into linen ephods, and mecha"nics of the lowest rank into priefts of the high places. "I wonder that our door-pofts and walls fweat not, upon which fuch notes as these have been lately af"fixed; on fuch a day, fuch a brewer's clerk exer"cifeth; fuch a tailor expoundeth; fuch a waterman "teacheth.-If cooks, instead of mincing their meat, "fall upon dividing of the Word; if tailors leap up "from the fhopboard into the pulpit, and patch up "fermons out of ftolen fhreds; if not only of the lowest "of the people, as in Jeroboam's time, priefts are con"fecrated to the Moft High God-Do we marvel to "fee fuch confusion in the Church as there is!" They are humourously girded in a tract entitled, The Reformado, precifely character'd, by a modern Church-warden, p. 11. Here are felt-makers (fays he) who can "roundly deal with the blockheads and neutral dimi"cafters of the world; coblers who can give good "rules for upright walking, and handle Scripture to a "bristle; coachmen who know how to lafh the beaftly "enormities, and curb the headstrong infolences of "this brutish age, ftoutly exhorting us to stand up for "the truth, left the wheel of deftruction roundly overWe have weavers that can fweetly inform run us. VOL. I. F Kus For difputants, like rams and bulls, Do fight with arms that spring from sculls. It may be true, for flesh is grafs. 440 445 450 455 As "us of the shuttle swiftness of the times, and practi"cally tread out the viciffitude of all fublunary things "till the web of our life be cut off: and here are me"chanics, of my profeffion, who can feparate the "pieces of falvation from those of damnation, mea"fure out every man's portion, and cut it out by a "thread, fubftantially preffing the points, till they "have fashionably filled up their work with a well-bot"tomed conclufion." Ver. 441. Colon.] Ned Perry, an hoftler. |