HUDIBRAS.

Tome II.

A

HUDIBRAS.

THE

ARGUMENT

OF THE FOURTH CANTO.

The Knight, by Damnable Magician,
Being caft illegally in Prison;

Love brings his Action on the Cafe,
And lays it upon Hudibras.

How he recives the Ladies vifit,

And cunningly his Sute follicit,
Which she defers; yet on Parole,
Redeems him from th' inchanted Hole.

CANTO IV.

BUT now, obferve Romantick Method „

Let bloody Steel a-while be sheathed;

HUDIBRAS.

SUJET

DU QUATRIEME CHANT.

Hudibras illégalement

Refferré par enchantement:
L'amour fe met de la partie,
Pour augmenter fon avanie:
Survient l'objet de fon amour:
Finement il lui fait fa cour.
La Dame joue au mieux fon rôle ;
Et l'élargit fur fa parole.

CHANT IV.

SUIVANT

le ftile de Roman,

Renguainons le fer un moment;

And all thofe harsh and rugged Sounds
Of Baftinado's Cuts, and Wounds,
Exchang'd to Love's more gentle style,
To let our Reader breath a-while :
In which that we may be as brief as
Is poffible, by way of Preface,
Is't not enough to make one strange,

That fome Mens Fancies should ne'er change,
But make all People do, and fay,
The fame things ftill the felf-fame Way?
Some Writers make all Ladies purloin'd,
And Knights pursuing like a Whirlwind:
Others make all their Knights in Fits
Of Jealousy to lose their Wits;

Till drawing Blood o' th' Dames, like Witches,
Th' are forthwith cur'd of their Capriches.

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Some always thrive in their Amours
By pulling Plaifters off their Sores ;
As Cripples do to get an Alms,
Just fo do they, and win their Dames.
Some Force whole Regions in defpight
Of Geography to change their fite:

Make former Times shake Hands with latter,

And that which was before, come after.