PART III. THIRD CANTO. The Argument. The Knight and Squire's prodigious flight Part 3. Canto 3. Line 629. L.Rofs sculp. HUDI BRAS. CANTO III. WHO would believe what strange bugbears That spring, like fern, that insect weed, And have no poffible foundation, But merely in th' imagination ? 5. And yet can do more dreadful feats Than hags, with all their imps and teats; For fear does things fo like a witch, 'Tis hard t' unriddle which is which; Sets up communities of fenfes, To chop and change intelligences; As Roficrucian virtuofo's Can fee with ears, and hear with noses; To th' course of nature, but its own, 10 15 20 |