And truly fo he was, perhaps, 65 Not as a profelyte, but for claps. A hair 'twixt fouth and fouth-west fide; Of argument, a man 's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; 70 A calf Ver. 62.] Here is an alteration without any amendment; for the following lines, And truly fo he was, perhaps, Not as a profelyte, but for claps, are thus changed in the editions of 1674, 1684, 1689, 1694, 1700, And truly fo perhaps he was, 'Tis many a pious Chriftian's cafe. Reftored in the edition of 1704. A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks Committee-men and Trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; You'd think he talk'd like other folk; 75 80 85 For Ver. 75.] Such was Alderman Pennington, who fent a perfon to Newgate for finging (what he called) a malignant pfalm. Ibid.-] Lord Clarendon obferves, "That after the "declaration of No more Addreffes to the King, they "who were not above the condition of ordinary con"ftables fix or seven years before, were now the juf"tices of the peace. Dr. Bruno Ryves informs us, That the "town of Chelmsford in Effex was governed, "at the beginning of the Rebellion, by a tinker, two "coblers, two tailors, and two pedlars." Ver. 76.] In the feveral counties, efpecially the Affociated ones (Middlefex, Kent, Surrey, Suflex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire) which fided with the Parliament, Committees were erected of such men as were for the Good Caufe, as they called it, who had authority, from the members of the two Houses at Westminster, to fine and imprison whom they pleased. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleas'd to show 't, his speech, A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and py-ball'd languages; It had an old promiscuous tone, As if he had talk'd three parts in one; Which made fome think, when he did gabble, Th' had heard three labourers of Babel, Or Cerberus himself pronounce This he as volubly would vent, As if his stock would ne'er be spent: 90 95 100 105 And truly, to fupport that charge, 110 And Ver. 109.] The Prefbyterians coined a great number, fuch as Out-goings, Carryings-on, Nothingness, Workings-out, Gofpel-waking-times, &c. which we fhall meet with hereafter, in the fpeeches of the Knight and Squire, and others, in this Poem; for which they are bantered by Sir John Birkenhead. And when with hafty noise he spoke 'em, The ignorant for current took 'em ; That had the orator, who once Did fill his mouth with pebble-stones. When he harangued, but known his phrase, In mathematics he was greater 115 120 125 130 Whatever Ver. 115.] This and the three following lines not in the two first editions of 1664, but added in the edit. 1674. Demofthenes is here meant, who had a defect in his fpeech. Ver. 120.] An eminent Danish mathematician; and William Lilly, the famous aftrologer ofthofe times. Ver. 129] This and the following line not in the two first editions of 1664, and first inferted in that of Whatever fceptic could enquire for, 135 His notions fitted things fo well, That which was which he could not tell; 140 But oftentimes 'miftook the one For th' other, as great clerks have done. Where Entity and Quiddity, 145 The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly; Where truth in perfon does appear, Like words congeal'd in northern air. He knew what 's what, and that 's as high As metaphyfic wit can fly: In fchool-divinity as able As he that hight Irrefragable; 150 A fecond Ver. 131. Enquire.] Inquere, in all editions to 1689, inclufive. Ver. 152. Irrefragable.] Alexander Hales, fo called; he was an Englishman, born in Gloucestershire, and flourished about the year 1236, at the time when what was called School-divinity was much in vogue; in which science he was fo deeply read, that he was called Doctor Irrefragabilis; that is, the Invincible Doctor, whofe arguments could not be refifted. |