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,
So fwords, in men of war, are teeth

Which they do eat their vittle with..
He was by birth, fome authors write,
A Ruffian, fome a Muscovite,

And 'mong the Coffacks had been bred,
Of whom we in Diurnals read,
That ferve to fill up pages here,

As with their bodies ditches there.
Scrimansky was his coufin-german,

With whom he ferv'd, and fed on vermin;
And when these fail'd, he 'd fuck his claws,
And quarter himfelf upon his paws:
And though his countrymen, the Huns,
Did stew their meat between their bums

And th' horfes' backs o'er which they straddle,
And every man ate up his faddle;

He was not half fo nice as they,

But ate it raw when 't came in 's way.

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He 'ad trac'd the countries far and near,

More than Le Blanc the traveller,
Who writes, he fpous'd in India,.
Of noble house, a lady gay,
And got on her a race of worthies
As ftout as any upon earth is.
Full many a fight for him between
Talgol and Orfin oft had been,

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Each

Each striving to deferve the crown.

Of a fav'd citizen; the one

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To guard his Bear, the other fought

To aid his Dog; both made more stout
By several spurs of neighbourhood,
Church-fellow-membership, and blood;
But Talgol, mortal foe to cows,
Never got aught of him but blows;
Blows hard and heavy, fuch as he
Had lent, repaid with usury.

Yet Talgol was of courage ftout,

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And vanquish'd oftener than he fought;

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Inur'd to labour, fweat, and toil,

And, like a champion, fhone with oil:
Right many a widow his keen blade,
And many fatherless, had made;
He many a boar and huge dun-cow
Did, like another Guy, o'erthrow;
But Guy with him in fight compar'd,«
Had like the boar or dun-cow far'd:

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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,

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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 ;

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For he was of that noble trade
That demi-gods and heroes made,
Slaughter, and knocking on the head,"
The trade to which they all were bred;
And is, like others, glorious when

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'Tis great and large, but base, if mean: The former rides in triumph for it,

The latter in a two-wheel'd chariot,
For daring to profane a thing
So facred with vile bungling.

Next thefe the brave Magnano came,
Magnano, great in martial fame;
Yet when with Orfin he wag'd fight,
'Tis fung he got but little by 't:
Yet he was fierce as foreft-boar,
Whofe fpoils upon his back he wore,
As thick as Ajax' seven-fold shield,
Which o'er his brazen arms he held;
But brafs was feeble to refift

The fury of his armed fift;

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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.
In magic he was deeply read,
As he that made the brazen-head;
Profoundly skill'd in the black art,
As English Merlin for his heart;
But far more fkilful in the spheres,.
Than he was at the fieve and shears.

He could transform himself in colour,
As like the devil as a collier;
As like the hypocrites, in show,
Are to true faints,, or crow to crow.
Of warlike engines he was author,
Devis'd for quick dispatch of flaughter :-
The cannon, blunderbuss, and faker,

He was th' inventor of, and maker :
The trumpet and the kettle-drum
Did both from his invention come.
He was the first that e'er did teach

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350.

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To make, and how to stop a breach.

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A lance he bore with iron pike,.

Th' one half would thrust, the other strike;

And when their forces he had join'd,

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He fcorn'd to turn his parts behind.
He Trulla lov'd, Trulla, more bright
Than burnish'd armour of her knight;

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 :
Through perils both of wind and limb,
Through thick and thin the follow'd him
In every adventure h' undertook,
And never him or it forfook:
At breach of wall, or hedge furprise,
She fhar'd i' th' hazard and the prize;
At beating quarters up, or forage,
Behav'd herself with matchless courage,
And laid about in fight more bufily
Than th' Amazonian Dame Penthefile.

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And though fome critics here cry fhame,
And fay our authors are to blame,

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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.