Hudibras . AN HEROICAL EPISTLE OF HUDIBRAS TO Eoce iterum Crispinus. Well, Sidrophel, tho tis in vainTo tamper with your crazy brain, This Epistle was not published till many years after the precedingcanto, and has no relation to the character there described. Sidrophelin the poem, is a knavish fortune-teller, whose ignorance is compensatedby a large share of cunning. In the Epistle he is ignorant indeed, butthe defect is made up by conceitedness, assurance, and a solemn should seem that Mr. Butler had received an affront or injury fromsome person of moderate abilities,
Hudibras . AN HEROICAL EPISTLE OF HUDIBRAS TO Eoce iterum Crispinus. Well, Sidrophel, tho tis in vainTo tamper with your crazy brain, This Epistle was not published till many years after the precedingcanto, and has no relation to the character there described. Sidrophelin the poem, is a knavish fortune-teller, whose ignorance is compensatedby a large share of cunning. In the Epistle he is ignorant indeed, butthe defect is made up by conceitedness, assurance, and a solemn should seem that Mr. Butler had received an affront or injury fromsome person of moderate abilities, who had obtained notwithstandinga respectable situation, and stood high in the opinion of the world :and that he addressed the offending party by the title of Sidrophel, be- 66 HUDIBRAS TO SIDROPHEL. Without trepanning of your skull, ^ As often as the moons at full, Tis not amiss, ere yere givn oer, 5 To try one desprate medcine more; For where your case can be no worse, The despratst is the wisest course.
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