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With a Life of the Author. a Preliminary Discourse on the Civil War &c &NEW Notes & Illustrations.

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She first consider'd which was better
To send it back, or burn the Letter.

LONDON.

Vide Hudibras to his Lady.
Page 353.

Published by Suttaby Evance &Fox & Crosby&Co. Stationers Court.

1812

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PART SECOND.

CANTO THIRD.

THE ARGUMENT.

The Knight, with doubts possest,
To win the Lady goes in quest
Of Sydrophel the Rosicrucian,

To know the Dest'nies' resolution;

With whom being met, they both chop logic,
About the science astrologic;

Till falling from dispute to fight,

The Conj'rer's worsted by the Knight.

DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great

Of being cheated, as to cheat;
As lookers-on feel most delight,
That least perceive a juggler's sleight;
And still the less they understand,
The more th' admire his sleight of hand.
Some with a noise, and greasy light,
Are snapt, as men catch larks by night;
Ensnar'd and hamper'd by the soul,
As nooses by the legs catch fowl.
Some with a med'cine and receipt,
Are drawn to nibble at the bait;
And tho' it be a two-foot trout,
'Tis with a single hair pull'd out.
VOL. II.

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