Hudibras . CANTO Doubtless the pleasure is as greatOf being cheated, as to cheat; ^As lookers-on feel most delight,That least perceive a jugglers still the less they understand,The more th admire his slisfht of hand. * As the subject of this canto is the dispute between Hudibras andan astrologer, it is prefaced by some reflections on the credulity ofmen. This exposes them to the artifices of cheats and impostors,not only when disguised under the characters of lawyers, physicians,and divines, but even in the questionable garb of wizards and fortune-tellers. * Swift, in the Tale
Hudibras . CANTO Doubtless the pleasure is as greatOf being cheated, as to cheat; ^As lookers-on feel most delight,That least perceive a jugglers still the less they understand,The more th admire his slisfht of hand. * As the subject of this canto is the dispute between Hudibras andan astrologer, it is prefaced by some reflections on the credulity ofmen. This exposes them to the artifices of cheats and impostors,not only when disguised under the characters of lawyers, physicians,and divines, but even in the questionable garb of wizards and fortune-tellers. * Swift, in the Tale of a Tub, (digression on madness) places happi-ness in the condition of being well deceived, and pursues the thoughtthrough several pages. Aristippus being desired to resolve a riddle,replied, that it would be absurd to resolve that which unresolved aflFord-ed so much pleasure: — cui sic extorta voluptas,Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error. Hor. lib. ii. epist. ii. 140. HUDIBRAS. [part II. Some w
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