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M.DCCC.L VII.

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Satire

upon

the Weakness and Misery of Man

Satire upon the Licentious Age of Charles II.

Satire upon our ridiculous Imitation of the French

Satire upon Drunkenness

Satire upon the Imperfection and Abuse of Human Learn-

ing. Part I.

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Fragments of an intended Second Part of the foregoing

Satire

On a Hypocritical Nonconformist

On Modern Critics

To the Happy Memory of the most renowned Du-Val.

A Ballad upon the Parliament which deliberated about

making Oliver King

A Ballad, in Two Parts, conjectured to be on Oliver

Cromwell. Part I.

Part II.

Miscellaneous Thoughts

Triplets upon Avarice

Description of Holland

To his Mistress

To the same

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Epigram on a Club of Sots

Hudibras's Elegy

Hudibras's Epitaph

HUDIBRAS.

PART III. CANTO II.

THE ARGUMENT.

The saints engage in fierce contests
About their carnal interests,
To share their sacrilegious preys
According to their rates of Grace:
Their various frenzies to reform,
When Cromwell left them in a storm;
Till, in th' effige of Rumps, the rabble
Burn all their Grandees of the Cabal.

THE learned write an insect breese
Is but a mongrel prince of bees,
That falls before a storm on cows,
And stings the founders of his house,
From whose corrupted flesh that breed
Of vermin did at first proceed.

So, ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout

This Canto is entirely independent of the adventures of Hudibras and Ralpho; neither of our heroes make their appearance: other characters are introduced. The Poet skips from the time wherein these adventures happened to Cromwell's death, and from thence to the dissolution of the Rump Parliament.