THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL BUTLER.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

FROM

THE TEXTS OF DR. GREY AND MR. THYER.

WITH THE

LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES.

Now you must know Sir Hudibras

With fuch perfections gifted was,

And fo peculiar in his manner,

That all that faw him did him honour.----HUD. AT COURT,

But fince his worship 's dead and gone,

And mould'ring lies beneath this ftone,
The Reader is defir'd to look

For his achievements in his Book;
Which will preserve of Knight the Tale,
Till Time and Death itself fhall fail.

HUD.'s EPITAPH.

Bell's fecond edition.

VOL. II.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Press, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1784.

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL BUTLER.

VOL. II.

CONTAINING HIS

HUDIBRAS.

IN THREE PARTS.

Written in the time of the late Wars.

FROM THE TEXT OF ZACH. GREY, LL.D.

WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES.

EDINBURG:

AT THE Apollo Prefs, BY THE MARTINS.
Anno 1784.

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IN THREE PARTS.

PART II. CANTO III.

The Argument.

The Knight, with various doubts poffeft,

To win the Lady goes in queft

Of Sidrophel the Rofycrucian,

To know the Deft'nies' refolution;

With whom b'ing met, they both chop logick

About the science aftrologick;

Till falling from difpute 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 fleight,
And ftill the less they understand,
The more th' admire his fleight of hand.
Some with a noife, a greafy light,
Are fnapt, as men catch larks by night,
Enfnar'd and hamper'd by the foul,
As noofes 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 fingle hair pull'd out.
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