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Hudibras -Continued.

Part i. Canto i. Line 161.

Such as take lodgings in a head

That's to be let unfurnished.*

Part i. Canto i. Line 199.

And prove their doctrine orthodox,
By Apostolic blows and knocks.

Part i. Canto i. Line 215.

Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.

Part i. Canto i. Line 463.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

Part i. Canto i. Line 489.

He ne'er considered it, as loth

To look a gift-horse in the mouth.

Part i. Canto i. Line 647.

And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature, and their stars, to write.

Part i. Canto i. Line 821.

Quoth Hudibras, “I smell a rat;
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."

* Often the cockloft is empty, in those which nature hath built many stories high. Holy and Profane State. B. v. ch. xviii. FULLER.

Hudibras Continued.

Part i. Canto i. Line 852.

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.

Part i. Canto ii. Line 633.

And bid the devil take the hin'most,
Which at this race is like to win most.

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With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1.

Ay me! what perils do environ

The man that meddles with cold iron.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 263.

Nor do I know what is become

Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.

Part i. Canto iii. Line 309.

H' had got a hurt

O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.

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I am not now in fortune's power;

He that is down can fall no lower.*

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1367.

Thou hast

Outrun the Constable at last.

*He that is down need fear no fall.

Pilgrim's Progress.—BUNYAN.

Hudibras-Continued.

Part ii. Canto i. Line 23.

Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;

Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after.
But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think's sufficient at one time.

Part ii. Canto i. Line 297.

Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

Part ii. Canto i. Line 465.

For what is worth in any thing,
But so much money as 't will bring.

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Love is a boy by poets styled;

Then

spare the rod and spoil the child.

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29.

The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,
And, like a lobster boiled, the morn
From black to red began to turn.

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Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.

Hudibras - Continued.

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 503.

And look before you ere you leap;
For as you sow, y' are like to reap."

*

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated, as to cheat.

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He made an instrument to know

If the moon shine at full or no.

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prove that she's not made of green cheese.†

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You have a wrong sow by the ear. ‡

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To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catched,
And count their chickens ere they 're hatched.

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As quick as lightning, in the breach
Just in the place where honor's lodged,
As wise philosophers have judged,
Because a kick in that place more

Hurts honor than deep wounds before.

*See Tusser, ante, p. 92.

"The moon is made of a green cheese." Jack Jugler, p. 46.

He has the wrong sow by the ear.

(Every Man in his Humor. Act i. Sc. 1.)

BEN JONSON.

Hudibras-Continued.

Part iii. Canto i. Line 3.

As he that has two strings t' his bow.

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As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.

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Still amorous and fond, and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

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Cause Grace and Virtue are within
Prohibited degree of kin;

And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffered to espouse.

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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,
Though he

gave his name to our Old Nick.

Part iii. Canto ii. Line 175.

True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shined upon."

Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243.

For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.*

* That same man that runnith awaie,

Maie again fight an other daie. - UDALL'S ERASMUS.

He that fights and runs away

Maie live to fight another day.

From the Musarum Deliciae.

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