PART I.

SECOND CANTO.

The Argument.

The catalogue and character

Of th' enemies' best men of war,

Whom, in a bold harangue, the Knight
Defies, and challenges to fight:

H' encounters Talgol, routs the Bear,
And takes the Fiddler prifoner,
Conveys him to enchanted castle,

There shuts him faft in wooden Baftile.

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HUDI BRA S.

CANTO II.

THER
HERE was an ancient fage philofopher
That had read Alexander Rofs over,
And fwore the world, as he could prove,
Was made of fighting, and of love.
Just so romances are, for what else

Is in them all but love and battles?

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O' th' first of these w' have no great matter
To treat of, but a world o' th' latter,
In which to do the injur'd right,
We mean in what concerns just fight.
Certes, our Authors are to blame,
For to make some well-founding name
A pattern fit for modern knights
To copy out in frays and fights,
Like those that do a whole street raze,
To build another in the place;
They never care how many others
They kill, without regard of mothers,
Or wives, or children, fo they can
Make up fome fierce, dead-doing man,
Compos'd of many ingredient valours,
Just like the manhood of nine taylors :
So a wild Tartar, when he spies

A man that's handsome, valiant, wise,

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