Armed, as heralds, cant and langued, Or, as the vulgar fay, fharp-fanged: For as the teeth in beafts of prey Are fwords, with which they fight in fray, Which they do eat their vittle with.. And 'mong the Coffacks had been bred, As with their bodies ditches there. With whom he ferv'd, and fed on vermin; And th' horfes' backs o'er which they straddle, He was not half fo nice as they, But ate it raw when 't came in 's way. 280 He 'ad trac'd the countries far and near, More than Le Blanc the traveller, 285 Each Each striving to deferve the crown. Of a fav'd citizen; the one 290 To guard his Bear, the other fought To aid his Dog; both made more stout Yet Talgol was of courage ftout, 2.95 And vanquish'd oftener than he fought; 300 Inur'd to labour, fweat, and toil, And, like a champion, fhone with oil: 305 Bold Sir George, Saint George, did the Dragon. Nor Ver. 299.] A butcher in Newgate-market, who afterwards obtained a captain's commiffion for his rebellious bravery at Nafeby, as Sir R. L'Eftrange obferves. Nor engine, nor device polemic, 315 Disease, nor doctor epidemic, Though ftor'd with deletery med'cines, (Which whosoever took is dead fince) E'er fent fo vaft a colony To both the under worlds as he ; 320 For he was of that noble trade 325 'Tis great and large, but base, if mean: The former rides in triumph for it, The latter in a two-wheel'd chariot, Next thefe the brave Magnano came, The fury of his armed fift; 330 335 340 Nor Ver. 331.] Simeon Wait a tinker, as famous an Independent preacher as Burroughs; who, with equal blafphemy to his Lord of Hofts, would ftyle Oliver Cromwell the Archangel giving battle to the Devil. Nor could the hardest ir'n hold out Against his blows, but they would through 't. He could transform himself in colour, He was th' inventor of, and maker : 345 350. 359 To make, and how to stop a breach. 360 A lance he bore with iron pike,. Th' one half would thrust, the other strike; And when their forces he had join'd, 365 He fcorn'd to turn his parts behind. A bold Ver. 365.] The daughter of James Spenfer, debauched by Magnano the tinker. So called, because the tinker's wife or mistress was commonly called his #rull. See "The Coxcomb," a Comedy. A bold virago, ftout and tall, As Joan of France, or English Mall : 370 375 And though fome critics here cry fhame, 380 Ver. 368.] Alluding, probably, to Mary Carlton, called Kentish Moll, but more commonly The German Princess; a perfon notorious at the time this First Part of Hudibras was published. She was transported to Jamaica 1671; but returning from transportation too. foon, fhe was hanged at Tyburn Jan. 22, 1672-3. Ver. 382.] This and the three following lines not in the two first editions of 1663. |