prehending the poem, the second the notes, but the thickness of the paper, and size of the type, obliged the binder to divide each volume into two tomes; this has undesignedly encreased the number of tomes, and the price of the work.*

*Mr. Rollin in his advertisement to the eleventh volume of his ancient hiftory, fays, "Ce volume s'eft trouvé d'une groffeur fi enorme qu'on s'eft cru obligé de le divifer pour la "commodité des lectures, & de la couper en deux tomes."

Autograph of Samuel Butler.

To thinke how Spencer dyed how fowly mouend
How Butler's faith & Serbier we're Return'd.

PART I.

FIRST CANTO.

The Argument.

Sir HUDIBRAS his paffing worth,
The manner how he fally'd forth;
His arms and equipage are fhewn ;
His horfe's virtues and his own.
Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle
Is fung, but breaks off in the middle.

VOL. I.

B