HUDIBRAS,

А РОЕМ,

BY SAMUEL BUTLER :

WITH HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, AND EXPLANATORY

NOTES,

SELECTED FROM GREY & OTHER AUTHORS.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

AND

A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE ON THE CIVIL WAR.

A New Edition.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

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1822.

HENRY MORSE STEPHENS

PART II.---CANTO III.

The Argument.

The Knight, with various doubts possest,
To win the Lady goes in quest

Of Sidrophel the Rosycrucian,

To know the dest'nies' resolution:

With whom b'ing met, they both chop logic
About the science astrologic;

Till, falling from dispute to fight,

The Conj'rer 's worsted by the Knight.

DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great

Of being cheated, as to cheat;
As lookers-on feel most delight

That least perceive a juggler's sleight,
And still, the less they understand,
The more they' admire his sleight of hand.

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