Hudibras: A Poem, in Three Cantos, Volume 1, Issue 1Rickaby, 1793 - 317 pages |
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... O'er a poor bard have rais'd this humble stone , " Whofe wants alone his genius could furpass , " Victim of zeal ! the matchlefs Hudibras ! " What though fair freedom fuffer'd in his " Reader , forgive the author for the age ! " How few ...
... O'er a poor bard have rais'd this humble stone , " Whofe wants alone his genius could furpass , " Victim of zeal ! the matchlefs Hudibras ! " What though fair freedom fuffer'd in his " Reader , forgive the author for the age ! " How few ...
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... Chief of domestic knights , and errant , Either for chartel or for warrant : Great on the bench , great in the faddle , That could as well bind o'er , as swaddle : 10 20 Mighty he was at both of thefe , And ftyl❜d 4 PART I. CANTO I.
... Chief of domestic knights , and errant , Either for chartel or for warrant : Great on the bench , great in the faddle , That could as well bind o'er , as swaddle : 10 20 Mighty he was at both of thefe , And ftyl❜d 4 PART I. CANTO I.
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... o'er the strings , Which was but foufe to chitterlings : For guts , fome write , ere they are fodden , Are fit for music , or for pudden ; From whence men borrow ev'ry kind Of minstrelsy , by string or wind . His grifly beard was long ...
... o'er the strings , Which was but foufe to chitterlings : For guts , fome write , ere they are fodden , Are fit for music , or for pudden ; From whence men borrow ev'ry kind Of minstrelsy , by string or wind . His grifly beard was long ...
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... o'er the men of ftring , As once in Perfia , ' tis faid , 135 Kings were proclaim'd by a horse that neigh'd ; He , bravely vent'ring at a crown , By chance of war was beaten down , And wounded fore : his leg then broke , Had got a ...
... o'er the men of ftring , As once in Perfia , ' tis faid , 135 Kings were proclaim'd by a horse that neigh'd ; He , bravely vent'ring at a crown , By chance of war was beaten down , And wounded fore : his leg then broke , Had got a ...
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... , when these fail'd , he'd fuck his claws , And quarter himself upon his paws : And tho ' his countrymen , the Huns , Did ftew their meat between their bums 275 And th ' horses ' backs o'er which they straddle 74 PART I. CANTO II .
... , when these fail'd , he'd fuck his claws , And quarter himself upon his paws : And tho ' his countrymen , the Huns , Did ftew their meat between their bums 275 And th ' horses ' backs o'er which they straddle 74 PART I. CANTO II .
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