. Hudibras. A poem in three cantos. PART II. SECOND CANTO. T^e Knight and Squire in hot cUfputeyWithhi an ace of falling out^Are parted with a fudden frightOf Jlrange alarm, and Jlranger fight \TVith which adventuring to fickle^They re fent away in najly Jaf^^.Oz/UoSZine S3 J-AiJJ arfib) . H U D I B R A S. CANTO II. 1 IS ftrange how fome mens tempers bawd and brandy, with for their own opinions ftand faft,Only to have them clawd and keep their confciences in fiddlers do their crowds and bafes, 268 CANTO II. PART II. Neer to be usd but when


. Hudibras. A poem in three cantos. PART II. SECOND CANTO. T^e Knight and Squire in hot cUfputeyWithhi an ace of falling out^Are parted with a fudden frightOf Jlrange alarm, and Jlranger fight \TVith which adventuring to fickle^They re fent away in najly Jaf^^.Oz/UoSZine S3 J-AiJJ arfib) . H U D I B R A S. CANTO II. 1 IS ftrange how fome mens tempers bawd and brandy, with for their own opinions ftand faft,Only to have them clawd and keep their confciences in fiddlers do their crowds and bafes, 268 CANTO II. PART II. Neer to be usd but when they re bent To play a fit for argument. Make true and falfe, unjuft and jufl. Of no ufe but to be difcuft; lo Dilpute and fet a paradox. Like a ftrait boot, upon the flocks. And ftretch it more unmercifully, Than Helmont, Montaigne, White or Tully. So th ancient Stoics in the porch, 15 With fierce difpute maintaind their church. Beat out their brains in fight and fludy. To prove that virtue is a body. That bonum is an animal, Made good with ftout polemic brawl: 20 In which fome hundreds on the place Were flain outright, and many a face Retrenchd of nofe, and eyes, and beard. To maintain what their fedl averrd. PART II. CANTO II. 269 All which the knight


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