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againſt agen Anaxagoras b'ing bafely Beafts bear Bear-baiting Beard Beaſt Becauſe Befide beft beſt blows Bus'nefs Cafe caft Caufe Cauſe CERDON Church Confcience cou'd courfe Courſe Defign Devil difpute Dogs e're Ears elfe ev'ry fafe faft faid falfe fame Feats fent ferve fhall fhew fhould fide fight fince firft firſt flain fome foon ftand ftill ftout ftrange fuch fure fwear fword Heaven himſelf Honour Horfe Horſe Houſe itſelf juft Knight Ladies laft learned leaſt lefs Love Lover MAGNANO moft moſt muft muſt Napier's Bones ne'er nofe o'er Oaths pafs Perfon pleaſe Pow'r Prifoners prov'd Quoth fhe Quoth HUDIBRAS Rabble RALPHO Reaſon refolv'd reft Rump Saints Senfe ſhall SIDROPHEL Squire ſtill thee Thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe thou Trepans Tricks true turn'd twas underſtand Unleſs us'd uſe WHACHUM whofe wife worfe worſe wou'd Wounds
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Page 13 - And styled of war as well as peace. (So some rats of amphibious nature Are either for the land or water.) But here our authors make a doubt Whether he were more wise or stout.
Page 16 - He understood b' implicit faith : Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore ; Knew more than forty of them do, As far as words and terms could go ; All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion serv'd, would quote ; No matter whether right or wrong, They might be either said or sung.
Page 14 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, 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 syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do.
Page 18 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 19 - The self-same thing they will abhor One way and long another for ; Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin. Rather...
Page 27 - Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope, ' and
Page 12 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Page 165 - Church ; Yet all of us hold this for true, No faith is to the Wicked due. For truth is precious and divine; Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Page 14 - Tis plain enough he was no such; We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it; As being loth to wear it out. And therefore bore it not about, Unless on holy-days, or so, As men their best apparel do.
Page 161 - But to swear idly, and in vain, Without self-interest or gain ; For breaking of an oath and lying, Is but a kind of self-denying, A saint-like virtue, and from hence . Some have broke oaths by providence ; Some, to the glory of the Lord, Perjur'd themselves, and broke their word : And this the constant rule and practice Of all our late apostles acts is.