Hudibras: A Poem in Three Cantos, Volume 1Rickaby, 1793 |
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... 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 , 65 70 75 And rooks Committee - Men , or Trustees . He'd run in debt by disputation , And pay with ratiocination . All ...
... 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 , 65 70 75 And rooks Committee - Men , or Trustees . He'd run in debt by disputation , And pay with ratiocination . All ...
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... horse , The other would not hang an arfe . A Squire he had , whose name was Ralph , That in th ' adventure went his half . Though writers , for more stately tone , Do call him Ralpho , ' tis all one : And when we can , with metre safe ...
... horse , The other would not hang an arfe . A Squire he had , whose name was Ralph , That in th ' adventure went his half . Though writers , for more stately tone , Do call him Ralpho , ' tis all one : And when we can , with metre safe ...
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... horse in the mouth ; And very wifely would lay forth No more upon it than ' twas worth . But as he got it freely , fo 490 He spent it frank and freely too . For faints themselves will fometimes be , 495 Of gifts that cost them nothing ...
... horse in the mouth ; And very wifely would lay forth No more upon it than ' twas worth . But as he got it freely , fo 490 He spent it frank and freely too . For faints themselves will fometimes be , 495 Of gifts that cost them nothing ...
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... . This faid , as once the Phrygian knight , So ours , with rusty steel did smite His Trojan horse , and just as much He mended pace upon the touch ; 905 910 But from his empty ftomach groan'd , Just as that 54 PART I. CANTO I.
... . This faid , as once the Phrygian knight , So ours , with rusty steel did smite His Trojan horse , and just as much He mended pace upon the touch ; 905 910 But from his empty ftomach groan'd , Just as that 54 PART I. CANTO I.
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... , 55 The learned hold , are animals ; So horses they affirm to be Mere engines made by geometry , And were invented first from engines , As Indian Britains were from Penguins . 60 So let them be , and , as I was 62 PART I. CANTO II .
... , 55 The learned hold , are animals ; So horses they affirm to be Mere engines made by geometry , And were invented first from engines , As Indian Britains were from Penguins . 60 So let them be , and , as I was 62 PART I. CANTO II .
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