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He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no.
Part II (1664)
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
Part I (1663)
Friend Ralph, thou hast
Outrun the constable at last.
Part I (1663)
What mad lover ever dy'd,
To gain a soft and gentle bride?
Or for a lady tender-hearted,
In purling streams or hemp departed?
Hudibras, Part III (1678)
With books and money placed, for show
Like nest eggs, to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.
Hudibras, Part III (1678)
For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
Your pettifoggers damn their souls,
To share with knaves in cheating fools.
Hudibras, Part II (1664)
The truest characters of ignorance
Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.
For rhetoric, he could not open
His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.
All which he understood by rote,
And, as occasion serv'd, would quote.
What plaguy mischief and mishaps
Do dog him still with after claps!
I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
Hudibras, Part II (1664)
He ne'er consider'd it, as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth.
Part I (1663)
For those that run away and fly,
Take place at least o' the enemy.
Part I (1663)
Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
Part I (1663)
The self-same thing they will abhor
One way, and long another for.
Cheered up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion,
That grace is founded in dominion.
When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.
Part I (1663)