PART II.

FIRST CANTO.

The Argument.

The Knight being clapp'd by th' heels in prison, The last unhappy expedition,

Love brings his action on the cafe,

And lays it upon Hudibras.

How he receives the lady's vifit,
And cunningly folicits his fuit,
Which he defers: yet, on parole,
Redeems him from th' enchanted hole.

MAIL

Part 2. Canto 1. Line 46.

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HUDI BRA S.

CANTO I.

BUT now, t' obferve romantique method,
Let rusty steel awhile be sheathed;
And all those harsh and rugged founds
Of bastinadoes, cuts, and wounds,
Exchang❜d to love's more gentle style,
To let our reader breathe awhile:

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be as

brief

as

In which, that we may

Is poffible, by way of preface.

Is 't not enough to make one strange,
That fome men's fancies fhould ne'er change,
But make all people do and fay

The fame things ftill the felf-fame way?
Some writers make all ladies purloin'd,
And knights pursuing like a whirlwind :
Others make all their knights, in fits
Of jealousy, to lose their wits;

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Till drawing blood o' th' dames, like witches,
They're forthwith cur'd of their capriches.
Some always thrive in their amours,
By pulling plaifters off their fores;
As cripples do to get an alms,

Juft fo do they, and win their dames.
Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their fite;

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