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Quotes from Part I — Samuel Butler

1612–1680 England

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Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!

Part I (1663)

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

Part I (1663)

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

Part I (1663)

Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.

Part I (1663)

With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.

Part I (1663)

Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.

Part I (1663)

I 'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.

Part I (1663)

For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.

Part I (1663)

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

Part I (1663)

I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.

Part I (1663)

Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.

Part I (1663)

A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.

Part I (1663)

Friend Ralph, thou hast
Outrun the constable at last.

Part I (1663)

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)

When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.

Part I (1663)

While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.

Part I (1663)

All piety consists therein
In them, in other men all sin...

Part I (1663)

He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.

Part I (1663)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Butler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.