Beside, 't is known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;'

That Latin was no more difficile

1 He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.

CRANFIELD: Panegyric on Tom Coriate

See Shakespeare, page 50.

See Skelton, page 8.

4 See Bacon, page 170.

As if religion was intended
For nothing else but to be mended.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 205.

Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.

Line 215.

The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,

For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself, for lack

Of somebody to hew and hack.

Line 359.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses,

With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat! 2
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."

Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.
And bid the devil take the hin'most.1

With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.

Like feather bed betwixt a wall

And heavy brunt of cannon ball.

Line 821,

Line 852.

Canto ii. Line 633.

Line 831.

Line 872.

Ay me! what perils do environ

The man that meddles with cold iron! Б

Who thought he'd won

The field as certain as a gun."

See Heywood page 11.

See Fortescue, page 7.

Canto iii. Line 1

Line 11.

2 See Middleton, page 172.

+ Bid the Devil take the slowest. -PRIOR: On the Taking of Namur.

Deil tak the hindmost. - BURNS: To a Haggis.

5

See Spenser, page 27.

6 Sure as a gun. -DRYDEN: The Spanish Friar, act iii. sc. 2. CER VATES: Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. vii.

Some force whole regions, in despite

O' geography, to change their site;

Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after.

1 See Middleton, page 172.

2 He that is down needs fear no fall.

part ii.

2

-BUNYAN: Pilgrim's Progress,

* Outrun the constable.-RAY: Proverbs, 1670.

But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think 's sufficient at one time.

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 23.

Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow;
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.

Line 221.

No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.

Line 273.

Love is a boy by poets styl'd;

Then spare the rod and spoil the child."

Line 843.

The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,

And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn
From black to red began to turn.

Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.

For truth is precious and divine, —
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?

1 Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

See Skelton, page 8.

Canto ii. Line 29.

Line 79.

Line 257.

Line 317

COWPER: Conversation, line 357.

He that imposes an oath makes it,
Not he that for convenience takes it;
Then how can any man be said

To break an oath he never made?

Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377

As the ancients

Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,1
And look before you ere you leap; 2
For as you sow, ye are like to reap.3

Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.*

He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no.

Line 501

Canto iii. Line 1.

Line 261

Each window like a pill'ry appears,

With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears.

Line 391.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd,

And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.

Line 923.

There's but the twinkling of a star

Between a man of peace and war.

Line 957.

But Hudibras gave him a twitch

As quick as lightning in the breech,
Just in the place where honour 's lodg'd,
As wise philosophers have judg'd;
Because a kick in that part more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.

As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.

1 See Lyly, page 33.

2 See Heywood, page 9.

Line 1065.

Part iii. Canto i. Line 481.

8 Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians ri.

4 This couplet is enlarged on by Swift in his "Tale of a Tub," where he says that the happiness of life consists in being well deceived.