beats OPHEL and an Whacum hall justifie't' your face, And prove he was upon the Place. nor have I hazarded my Art, And Neck, so long on the State's part. WHACUM.To be expos'd i'th End to suffer, By such a Braggadocio Huffer. And tho' you overcame the bear, The dogs beat you at Brentford fair; Quoth Hudibras, I now perceive You are no conj'rer, by your leave ; And forg'd to cheat fuch gulls as you. 1000 Not true? quoth he; howe'er you vapour, I can what I affirm make appear; Whachum shall justify 't to your face, 1005 And prove he was upon the place : If you deny it, here i' the house. Quoth Hudibras, I do believe That argument's demonstrative ; A conftable to feize the wretches: 1015 For tho' they're both false knaves and cheats, Impostors, jugglers, counterfeits, I'll make them ferve for perpendic'lars, As true as e'er were us'd by bricklayers: 1020 Upon the bench I will fo handle 'em, A thing he long has vapour'd of, 1025 Quoth Sidrophel, I do not doubt To find friends that will bear me out; And neck, fo long on the ftate's part, Huffer, quoth Hudibras, this sword 1030 1035 Shall down thy false throat cram that word; But Sidrophel, who from the aspect Of Hudibras, did now erect A figure worse portending far, Than that of moft malignant ftar; 1040 |