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Hudibras continued.]

Then how can any man be said

To break an oath he never made?

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377.

As the ancients

Say wisely, Have a care o' th' main chance,1 And look before you ere you leap ;1

For as you sow, y' are like to reap.2

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501.

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

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1.

He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no.

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261.

Each window like a pill'ry appears,

With heads thrust thro' nailed by the ears.

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

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There's but the twinkling of a star

Between a man of peace and war.

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As quick as lightning in the breech,

Just in the place where honour's lodged,

1 See Proverbs, p. 607.

2 Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Galatians, ch. vi. 7.

Cf. Tusser, ante, p. 7.

[Hudibras continued.

As wise philosophers have judged;
Because a kick in that place more

Hurts honour, than deep wounds before.

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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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What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was proved true before,
Prove false again? Two hundred more.

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'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;

And therefore no true saint allows
They should be suffer'd to espouse.

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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,

Though he gave his name to our old Nick.

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With crosses, relics, crucifixes,

Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes;
The tools of working out Salvation

By mere mechanic operation.

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True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.

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Hudibras continued.]

For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that's slain.1

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He that complies against his will

Is of his own opinion still.

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With books and money plac'd for show,
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,

And for his false opinion pay.

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ANDREW MARVELL.

1620-1678.

And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time.

In busy companies of men.

Bermudas.

The Garden. (Translated.)

Annihilating all that's made

To a green thought in a green shade.

Ibid.

The world in all doth but two nations bear,
The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere.

The Loyal Scot.

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JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1701.

ALEXANDER'S FEAST.

None but the brave deserves the fair. Line 15.

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Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain;

Fought all his battles o'er again;

And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he

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Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,
Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;

Alexander's Feast continued.]

Honour, but an empty bubble;
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying.

If all the world be worth the winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,

Take the good the gods provide thee.

Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again.

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Line 120.

And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.

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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

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He rais'd a mortal to the skies,

She drew an angel down.

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ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.

Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please.

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A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,
And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.1

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.2

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1 He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. - Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Life of Duke d'Alva.

2 Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, Ep. 1, Line 226.

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