Hudibras . d the robbed was certainly themost profitable part of the astrologers business. * That is marks or signs belonging to the astrologers art: from theAnglo Saxon cnaPan, to know, or understand. Knack often signifies abauble or plaything; a childs ball is called a knack. The Giossariston Douglas says We (the Scots) use tlie word knack for a witty ex- pression or action : a knacky man, that is, a witty facetious man ; which may come from the Teutonic schnaike, facetiae. The verb toknack in Douglas signifies to mock. ^ John Booker was born at Manchester, and a great has f
Hudibras . d the robbed was certainly themost profitable part of the astrologers business. * That is marks or signs belonging to the astrologers art: from theAnglo Saxon cnaPan, to know, or understand. Knack often signifies abauble or plaything; a childs ball is called a knack. The Giossariston Douglas says We (the Scots) use tlie word knack for a witty ex- pression or action : a knacky man, that is, a witty facetious man ; which may come from the Teutonic schnaike, facetiae. The verb toknack in Douglas signifies to mock. ^ John Booker was born at Manchester, and a great has frequently been mentioned. Sarah Jimmers, called by Lilly,Sarah Skilhorn was a great speculatrix. ?* Thieves : from the A. S. niman, rapere, though it generally signifiespick-pockets, private stealers. * Lord Napier of Scotland, was author of an invention for casting upany sums or nunjbcrs by little rods, which being made of ivory werecalled Napiers bones. He first discovered the use of logarithms in trig-. r/m sc\Up! WSILILILi^Sfi 3L2S::E3^= (^UM/an. u^tia4Ma4^^lMnU^ii-/li^CCmm^7Maft,^yiZuMum/. C^a/fftOj^. // CANTO III.] HUDIBRAS. 59 Engravd in planetary hours, That over mortals had strange powers To make them thrive in law or trade, And stab or poison to evade; iioo In wit or wisdom to improve, And be victorious in love. Whachum had neither cross nor pile, ^ His plunder was not worth the while ; All which the conquror did discompt, iios To pay for curing of his rump. But Sidrophel, as full of tricksAs rota-men of politics, ^Straight cast about to over-reachTh unwary conquror with a fetch, iiio And make him glad at least to quitHis victory, and fly the the secular prince of darkness ^Arrivd to seize upon his carcass :And, as a fox with hot pursuit,* 1115 Chasd through a warren, cast about onometry, and made it public in a work printed at Edinburgh 1G14 : aninstance of ingenuity which should never be mentioned without a tri-bute of praise. His lordship was on
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