. Hudibras. A poem in three cantos. PART I. SECOND CANTO. Ci)e ^Irsument. The catalogue and charaSler Of tld enemies beji men of war. Whom, hi a bold harangue, the Knight Defies, and challenges to fight: H encounters Talgol, routs the Bear, And takes the Fiddler prifoner. Conveys him to enchanted cafile. There finds him fafi in wooden Par/- /. Caiiiv X. Lui,: SO/. HUDIBRAS. CANTO 11. 1 HERE was an ancient fage philofopherThat had read Alexander Rofs fwore the world, as he could prove,Was made of fighting, and of fo romances are, for what elfeIs in them all but lov
. Hudibras. A poem in three cantos. PART I. SECOND CANTO. Ci)e ^Irsument. The catalogue and charaSler Of tld enemies beji men of war. Whom, hi a bold harangue, the Knight Defies, and challenges to fight: H encounters Talgol, routs the Bear, And takes the Fiddler prifoner. Conveys him to enchanted cafile. There finds him fafi in wooden Par/- /. Caiiiv X. Lui,: SO/. HUDIBRAS. CANTO 11. 1 HERE was an ancient fage philofopherThat had read Alexander Rofs fwore the world, as he could prove,Was made of fighting, and of fo romances are, for what elfeIs in them all but love and battles ? Go CANTO II. PARTI. O th firft of thefe w have no great matter To treat of, but a world o th latter. In which to do the mjurd right, We mean in what concerns juft fight. lo Certes, our Authors are to blame, For to make fome well-founding name A pattern fit for modern knights To copy out in frays and fights, Like thofe that do a whole ftreet raze, 15 To build another in the place; They never care how many others They kill, without regard of mothers, Or wives, or children, fo they can Make up fome fierce, dead-doing man, 20 Composd of many ingredient valours, Juft like the manhood of nine taylors: So a wild Tartar, when he fpies A man thats handfome, valiant, wife. PART I. CANTO II. 61 If he can kill him, thinks t inherit
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