thought fit to be omitted in the firft Impreffion, as thefe which follow;

Did not the Learned Glyn and Maynard,
To make good Subjects Traitors? strain hard,
Was not the King by Proclamation,
Declar'd a Traitor thro' the Nation?

And now I heartily wish I could gratifie your farther Curiofity with fome of thofe Golden Remains, which are in the Cuf tody of Mr. L-------vil ; but not baving the Happpiness to be very well acquainted with him, nor Intereft to procure them, I defire you will be content with the following Copy, which the Ingenious Mr. Aubrey affures be had from the Author himself.

No Jefuit e'er took in Hand,

To plant a Church in barren Land;
Nor ever thought it worth the while,
A Swede or Rufs to reconcile,

For where there is no ftore of Wealth,
Souls are not worth the Charge of Health;
Spain in America, had two Designs
To fell their Gofpel for their Mines.

No

For had the Mexicans been poor,

NoSpaniard twice had landed on their Shore. 'Twas Gold the Catholick Religion planted, Which had they wanted Gold, they ftill had wanted.

The Oxford Antiquary afcribes to our Author two Pamphlets, fuppofed falfly, as he says, to be William Prin's. The one entitled, Mola Afinaria, Or, The Unreasonable and Infupportable Burthen, prefs'd upon the Shoulders of this Groaning Nation, c. London, 1659, in one Sheet 4to. The other two Letters, one, from John Audland, a Quaker, to Will. Pryn; the other, Pryn's Answer, in three Sheets in Folio, 1672.

I have also seen a Small Poem of one Sheet in Quarto, on Du Vall, a Notorious High-way-man, faid to be wrote by our Author, but how truly, I know not.

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HUDIBRAS

I

The ARGUMENT of the
FIRST CANTO.

Sir Hudibras his paffing worth,
The manner bow he fally'd forth,
His Arms and Equipage are fhewn;
His Horfe's Vertues, and his own.
Th' Adventure of the Bear and Fiddle
Is fung, but breaks off in the middle.

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CANTO I.

Hen civil Dudgeon firft grew high,
And Men fell out they knew not why:
When hard Words, Jealoufies and Fears,
Set Folks together by the Ears,

And made them fight like mad or drunk,
For Dame Religion as for Punk,

Whofe Honefty they all durft fwear for,
Tho' not a Man of them knew wherefore:
When Gospel-Trumpeter, furrounded
With long-ear'd Rout, to Battel founded,
And Pulpit Drum Ecclefiaftick,

Was beat with Fift, instead of a Stick:
Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling,
And out he rode a Colonelling.

A Wight he was, whofe

very fight wou'd Entitle him Mirror of Knight-hood;

That never bow'd his ftubborn Knee
To any thing but Chivalry;

Nor put up Blow, but that which laid
Right Worshipful on Shoulder-blade:
Chief of Domeftick Knights, and Errant,
Either for Chartel or for Warrant:
Great on the Bench, Great in the Saddle,
That could as well bind o'er, as fwaddle.
Mighty he was at both of thefe,
And ftyl'd of War as well as Peace.
(So fome Rats of Amphibious Nature,
Are either for the Land or Water.)

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