■1 w if i- DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Treasure %oom HUDIBRAS, IN THREE PARTS; Written in the Time of THE LATE WARS: Corredled and Amended. WITH LARGE ANNOTATIONS, AND A PREFACE, BY ZACHARY GREY, LL.D. Adorn*d with a new Set of Cuts. THE SECOND EDITION. VOL. IL L O N D N: Printehire ?'\ Hopkins, the mted Wit cij finder for the affo', dated Counties, hanged threefcore fufpefted Witches in one "i ear in the County of Sufo'k. bee Dr. hutchinfcns Hzjiorical Efj'ay on Wit (.her af, p. 37, 3^5. Dr. Meric Caiaubcn, in his Preface to Dr. Dee\ Book of SpiritSf obferves ; Tiiat nine hundred IVien and W omen fuffered in Lorain for '' itchcraft in the Compafs of a fevv Years : And Ludo-vicus Paramo, that the Inqui tion, within the Space of cne hundred and fifty Years, has burnt thirty thouiand V\ itches. Bakers hifory of the inquifition, p. i8n. But our ii,ntliufi;'fts much exceeded both. Mr. Ady, fays, that in Scotland fome thoufands were burnt in thofe Times. (Dr. Hut- cbinfon, p. 38.) I have fcmewhcre feen an Account of betwixt three and four thcufand that fuffered in the King's Dominions, from the Year 1640, to the King s Reftoration. See a remarkable Incident of this Kind, in Bretaigne, a Province of Frame. Turkijh ^py, vol. 4. book 4. letter 9. :^. 146, i^ H U D I B R A S. 145 Some only for not being drown d. And fome for fitting above Ground, \\fho\zDays'3indNights,u^on\ht\.v Breeches, And feeling Pain, were hang'd for Witches. And fome for putting Knavifi Tricks 1^0 Upon Green Geefe, and Turky- Chicks, Or Pigs, that fuddenly deceafl Of Griefs unnat'ral, as he guefl ^ f. 146, 147, 148. And fome for Jittlng ahove Ground^— Whole Days and Nights upon thtir Breeches, — And feeling Pain, "zvere hanged for Wrrhes.'] Alluding to one of the Methods of Trial, made Ufe of in thoib Days, mentioned by Dr. Hutchinfon, (Hijhrical Ejjay, p. 63.) " Do but imagine (fays he) a poor Creature, under all the *' VVcaknefs and Infirmities of old Age, fet like a Fool in the *' Middle of a Room, with the Rabble of ten Towns round " about her Houfe : Then her Legs tied crofs, that all the ic Weight of her Body might reft upon her Seat : By that Means, *' after fome Hours that the Circulation of the Blood would be " much flopped, her fitting would be as painful as the wooden *' Horfe. Then fhe muft continue in her Pain four and twenty **^ Hours without either Sleep or Meat. And fmce this was their *' ungodly Way of Trial, what wonder was it, if when they *■' were weary of their I>ives, they confeffed many Tales that •' would pleafe them, and fometimes they knew not what?" (See fome remarkable Methods of Trial from Mr. Whitelock's Memo- rials, Impartial Examination of Mr. Neal's 4"'^ vol. cf the Hijiory of the Puritans, p. 97, 98, 99, 1 00. And in Reginald Scot's DifoT.e>y of Witchcraft, book 2. chap. 12. p. 37, &c. publilhed in 1584.) f. 145. Some only for not being drown d.] This was a another Method of Trial, by IVater Ordeal, of which Mr. Scot obferves, from diverfe Writers (book 13. chap. 9. p. 303.) " That a Wo- " man, above the Age of fifty Years, being bound Hand and *' Foot, her Cloaths being upon her, and being laid down foftly •* in the Water, fmketh not in a long Time, fome fay not at all." Dr Huichinfon fomewhere obferves, that not one in ten can fink in this Pofition of their Bodies. And p. 55. " 1 hat we can no more •' convict a Witch upon the Tricks of fwimming, fcratching, " touching, or any other fuch Experiments, than we may convift *' a Thief upon the I'rial of the Sieve and Sheers." PART II. CANTO III. 13 Who after prov'd himfelf a JVitchy And made a Rod for his own Breech. 155 Did not the Devil appear to Martin Luther in Germany , for certain ? And wou'd have guU'd him with a Trick, But Mart, was too too politick. Did he not help the Dutch to purge 160 At Antwerp their Cathedral Church ? f. 153, 154. Who after fro'vd himfelf aWitch, — Andmade a Rod for his oiun Breech.'] " Thefe two Verfes (fays Dr. Hutchinfon, Hifiorical Effay, p. 65.) *' relate to that which I have often. *' heard, that Hopkins went on fearching and fwimming the poor *' Creatures, till fome Gentlemen, out of Indignation at the *' Barbarity, took him and tied his own Thumbs and Toes, as he " ufed to tie others ; and when he was put into the Water, he *' himfelf fwam as they did. This clear'd the Country of him, " and it was a great deal of Pity that they did not think, of thig ** Experiment fooner.'* f. 155, 156. Did mt the Devil cippear to Martin — Luther iaGer- xnany, for certain F] Luther in his Menfalia fpeaks of the Devil's, appearing to him frequently, and how he us'd to drive him away by fcoffing and jeering bim. For he obferves that the Devil being a proud Spirit, cannot bear to be contemn'd and fcofF d : •' I often (fays he, p. 381.) faid to him. Devil, I have bewray'd *' my Breeches, canft thou fmell that ?" (Dr. B.) And yet fome Popijh Writers (iee Epijtle to the Reader, prefixed to the Tranjlation of Henry Stephens'?, Apology for Herodotus, 1607. p. 3. from Cochlaus, Staphylus, &c.) atlirm, that Luther was be- got by an Incubus, and lb-angled by the Devil. (Vide etiam /i^^'b^/ Legion. Memorab, Anno 1550. Par. Poji. p. 593.) Mr. Oldham alludes to this Afperfion, (Third Satire againfi the Jefuites.) Make Luther Monfler, hy a Fiend begot.. With Wings, and Tail, and clo%'en Foot, f. 159. Did he not help the 'D\!iX.<:!^,l£c.'\ * In the Beginning of the Civil Wars oi Flanders, the common People of Antixierp in a Tumult broke open the Cathedral Church, to demolifh Images and Shrines ; and did fo much Mifchief in a fmall Time, that Sttada writes, there were feveral Devils feen very bufy among them, otherwife it had been impoflible. Strad. de Bella Belgico. Dec. I. Lib. i. p. 154. edit. Roma 1640. ir. 161. 14 nUDIBRAS. Sing Catches to the Saints at Mafcon^ And tell them all they came to afkhim ? Appear in divers Shapes to AW/y, And fpeak i' th' Nun of Loudon % Belly ? 165 Meet with the Parliament^ Committee, At Wood/lock on a Parf 'nal Treaty ? ir. 161. Sing Catches to the Saints at yisScon.^ * This Devil de^ liver'd his Oracies in Verfe, which he fung to Tunes, and made feveral Lampoons upon the Huguenots. There was a Treatife call d. The De^vil of Mafcon, or the true delation of the chief Things, ^cohich an unclean Spirit f aid at Mafcon in Burgundy, in the Houfe of Mr. Francis Perreaud, Minifter of the reformed Church in the f aid Tonvn : Written by the faid Perreaud foon after the Apparition, •vjhich nx'as in the Year \'.^\2, but not pub' lijh d till the Tear 165 3, fcrty one Years after the Thing nxias faid to be done. Tranfated by Dr. Pet :r de Moulin, at the Requeji of Mr. Boyle. [See Webjlers Difplay offuppos'd Witchcraft, chap. 16* p. 293.] f. 163. Appear in di-vers, &c.] * The Hiilory of Dr. Dee, and the Devil, publifh'd by Mer. Cafaubon, Ifaac F:l. Prebendary of Canterbury, has a large Account of all thcfe Pafiages ; in which the Style of the tiue and falfe Angels appears to be penn'd by one and the fame Perfon. f. 164. And fpeak i' th" Nun oj Loudovs Belly.] The Nan of Loudon in France, and all her Tricks have been ieeii by many Per- fons of Quality of tliis Nation yet living, who have made very good Obfervations upon the French Book, written upcn that Oc- Cafion. Vide Hijhire de Diable de Loudun, ou de la PoJ)r.JJion de Rcligieufe Urfuiines, iy de la Condemnation i5 du SupUce D Urbain Grandiere Cure de la vieme Ville : AJlrd. & Mag. 8=* N 14137. Catal. Bibliothecce Harhian. vol. z. Vide N'' 14300. if- 165, 166. Meet --with the Parliar.ient Committee— 'At Wood^ Jlock .] * A Committee of the long Parliament, fitting in the King's Houfe in Wocdjiock-Park, were terrily d with fcveral Apparitions, the Particulars whereof were then the News of the whole Nation. See the Narrative at large. Dr. Plots Nat. Hijl. of Oxford/hire, p. 214, &c. ir. 167. At Sarum, ifjc] * Withers has a long Story in Doggerel* of a Soldier of the Kings Army, who being a Prifoner at SaliJ- burs, and drinking a Health to the Devil upon his Knees, was carried away by him through a fmgle Pane of Glafs. ir. i69#- PART II. CANTO III. i| At Sarum take a Cavalier I' th' Cauje's Service Prifoner ? As JVitbers in immortal Rhime 170 Has regifter'd to after-time. Do not our great Reformers ufe This Sidrophel to forebode News ; f. 1 69. As Withe'-s in immortal Rhime, &c.] This Withers was 9. Puritanical OGicer in the Parliament Army, and a great Pre- tender to Poetry, as appears from his i'oems enumerated hyA. Woody (Athen. Oxon. vol. I. Col. 274, &c. ill edit.) but fo bad a Poet, that when he was taken Prifoner by the Cavaliers, Sir John Denham the Poet (feme of whofe Land, at Eghcmi in Surry, Wi- thers had got into his Clutches) defir d his Majeily not to hang him ; b caufe io long as Withers liv'd, Denham would not be ac- counted the worll Poet in England, Woody ibid. Col. 274. BiJJiop Kennet s Revijier and Chronicle, p. 694. •jr. 171, 172. Do not our great Reformers ufe — This Sidrophel /» forebode News .?] Hear, O Reader ! one of thefe great Reformers thus canting forth the Services oi Lilly. *^ You do not know the " many Services this IVjan hath done for the Parliament thefe ** many Years ; or how mrny Times in our greateft DiftrelTes we " applying unto him, he hath refrefh d our languifhing Expefta- *' tions ; he never fail d us of a Coii.fort in our mo;t unhappy *' Liftrefies. I afiure you his W'ritings have kept up the Spirits " both of the SolJie-y, the honcfl: People of this Nation, and *' many of us Parliament-Men." [See Lillys Life, p 71.] (Mr. B.J Lilly was one of the dole Committee to confult about the Kin?; s Execution. [See Mr. Echard's Hifory cfEng\2.nd, vol. 2. p. 641.] And for Pay, foretold Things in Favour of all Parties, as has been before obfervd, the Truth of which is confirm'd from the following Paflhgc, in a Letter of Intelligence to Secretary Thurloe from Bruges, Sept. 29, 1656, (Thurloe^s Stat, -Papers, vol. 5. p. 431.) " Lilly, that Rogue, who lives hy Strand-Bridge^ •' hath fent a Letter unto Sir Edivard Walker, who is one of his ** Majellys Secretaries, who is alfo an Aflrologer, to wifh them *• to have a good Heart, and be couragious. He was confident, ** and forefaw by Art, that the King and his Adherents would be " reftored in the Year 57 to the 1 hrone and Kingdom of Eng. •* land : And hereupon they depend much, becaufe fuch a Pro- *' phet fairh it ; who hath rightly prophefy d of the former *' King's Death ; fo he muft needs have an infallible Prophecy ** of this Mans Reftauration," ir. 173. i6 HU D I B RA S. To write of ViBories next Year, And Cajiles taken yet i' th' Air ? 175 Of Battles fought at ^ea^ and Ships Sunk two Years hence, the laft Eclipfe ? A total Overthrow giv'n the King In Cornwall^ Horfe and Foot^ next Spring ? jr. 173. To nurite of VtSlcrks next Year ^ Mr. Butler (Memoirs tfthe Tears 1649-50 Remains) has expos'd his Ignorance in the following Words : " O (fays he' the Infallibility of Erra-Pater ** Lilly ! 7 he Wizard perhaps may do much at Hot-Cockles, *' ZY\A Blind-Man s Buff ; but I durft undertake to poze him in a *' Riddle, and his Intelligence in a Dog in a Wheel : An over- " turnd Salt is a furer Prophet, the Sie-ve and Sheers are Oracles *' to him : A whining Pig fees further into a Storm ; Rats will *' prognofticate the Ruin of a Kingdom with more Certainty : " .-And as for Palmellry, a Gipfy, or zDERRIC (See the Word *' D.E.R.I.C. explain d, Gruteri Fax Art. Tom. 1. cap. 3. p. 322.) *' may be his Tutor, the Wittal is cuckolded over and over, and *' yet the O Edipus is blind ; like the old Witch, who being confult- ** ed to difcpver a Thief, could not difcover who had Ih— t at her *' own Door. Indeed he is excellent at foretelling Things paft ; *' and calculates the Deputy's Nativity after he is beheaded ; *' and by ftarting a Prophecy, he excites the credulous Vulgar to *' fulfil it: Thus can he antedate Crornvjell'syiaXice, depofe the *' King five Years before-hand, and inftruft Ralph how to be *' darand. Impious Villain, to make the Spheres like the affoci- *' ated Counties, and the heavenly Houfes, fo many lower Houfes, *' fix a Guilt upon the Stars, and perfuade the Planets were Re- *' bels, as if it were a Sequeftration Star, or any Conftellation *' look'd like a Committee.'''' His Reputation was loft upon his falfe PrognoHic upon the Eclipfe, that was to happen on the 29' '^ of March 1652, commonly call'd Black Monday, in which his Prediftions not being fully anfwer'd, Mr. Heath obferves, (Chro- nicle, p. 210.) " That he was regarded no more for the future, *' than one of his own njuortblefs Almanacks. "" Dr. James Young (Sidrophel vapulans,) makes the following Remark upon him. *' I have fays he) read all Lilly's Almanacks, from 40 to 60 in the ** holy 'ria:e of that great Rebellion, to which he was acceflary ; *' and find him always the whole Breadth of Heaven wide from ** Truth : Scarce one of his Predidions verified, but a thoufand *' contrary wife : It's hard, that a Man (hooting at Rovers fo *' many Years together, fhould never hit the right Mark." [See Si* PART II. CANTO III. And has not he point-blank foretold 1 80 Whatf'e'er the clofe Commit ee would? Made Mars and Saturfz for the Caiife, The Moon for fundamental Laws : The Ram, the Bull, and Goat declare Againfl the Book of Common-Pray r ? Sir Eii-ward Walker's Uijlorical ColkSiions, Puhlijhed 1707. p. 227, &c. if. 174.. And Cafths taken yet in tF Air .^] A Sneer probably up- on the Report publiflied in 1642, in a T raft, intitled, A great Wonder in Hea-uett, J^Kivitig the late Apparitions and prodigious Noifes of War and Battles /ten at Edge-hill, near Keinton irt Northamptonfhire — Certified under the Hands cf \^'illi3ni Wood, Efq-y Jifiice of the Peace in the faid County : Samuel IVIarilial, Preacher of God's Word at Keinton, and other Pcrfons of ^jiality, London, printed for Thomas jfackfon, Jan. 23, An7io Di^m. 1642, penes me. In the 36^ Year of the Reign of Edtvard the Third, Ralph Higden fays (fee Polychyonicon tranflated by Treviza, Lib, JJlt. chap. I. fol. 317. b.) there appeared both in England a.n6i France, and many other Places, two Cajiles in the Air, out of which iflued two Holts of armed Men, the one clothed in white, the other ia black. f. 179, 180. And has not he point-hlank foretold — Whatf'e''er the clof Committee nvoidd ?'\ The Parliament took a fare Way to fecure all Prophecies, Prodigies, aud Almanack-News from Stars, ffrV. in favour of their own Side, by appointing a Lice.ifer there- of, and ftriftly forbidding and punifhing all fuch as were not li- cenfed. 1 heir Man for this Purpofe was the famous Booker, an AJirologcr, Foriune-Teller, Almanack-Maker, &c. See -jr. 1093 of this Canto, and the Note thereon. See alfo Note upon Part 1. Canto II. f. 6^0. The Words of his Licenfe in Rujhworth, are very remarkable. For Mathematicks, Almanacks, and Prog- mftica.iizns. If we may believe Li'dy, both he and Booker did conjure and prognolUcate well for their Friends the Parliament. He tells us, *' v\ hen he applied for a Licenfe for his Mer'inus An^ •* gl cus Junior, in April 1644.) Booker wondered at the Book-, " made many impertinent Obliterations, framed many Cbjefti ns, *' and fwore it was not pofTible to diftinguilli between a King "nd *' Parliament, and at lalt licenfed it according to his own Fancy. ** Ldly delivered it to the Printer, who being an Arch Prcjhy:. ian, ** had five of the Minillers to infpeft it, who could make nothaig Vol.. II. B ♦' of i8 H U D I B R A S. 185 The Scorpion take the Protejlatioriy And Bear engage for Reformation ? Made all the Royal Stars recant. Compound, and take the Covenant ? Quoth HudibraSi the Cafe is clear, 190 The Saints may 'mploy a Conjurer -, As thou haft prov'd it by their Pra5lice ; No Argument like Matter of Favft is. And we are beft of all led to Men's Principles, by what they do. 195 Then let us ftrait advance in queft Of this profound Gy?miofophiJi, And as the Fates, and he advife. ** of it, but faid it might be printed : For tn that he meddled *' not with their Dagcn.''' ( Lillys Life, p. 44.) Which Oppo- fition to Lill/i Book arofe from a Jealoufy, that he was not then thoroughly in the Parliament's Intereft : Which was true ; for he frankly confefTes, " That till the Year 1645, ^^ ^'^^ more Ca~ *' falter than Roundhead, and fo taken Notice of: But after that, ** he engaged Body and Soul in the Caufe of the Parliament." (Life, p. 45.) Afterwards we find (among other curious Parti- culars) that when there was a Difference between the Army and Parliament, he and Booker were carried in a Coach with four Horfes to Windfor, (where the Army's head Quarters then were) were feafted in a Garden, where General Fairfax lodged, who bid them kindly welcome, and entered into a Conference with them : (Life, p. 57.) That when Coichcjler was beiieged, Booker and himfelf were fent for, where they encouraged the Soldiers, aflliring them iby Figures) that the 1 own would foon furrender ; that they were well entertained at the head Quarters two Days. (LifCf p. by, 68.) 'Xhat in Olii)ers Protedorpip, all the Soldiers, were Friends to Lilly ; and the Day of one of their Fights in Scotland, a Soldier ftood up with his Angltcu: in his Hand, and as the Troops paffed by him, read that Month s Prediction aloud, faying, Lo ! Hear what Lilly faith, you are in this Month pro- mifed Vidtory ; Fight it out, brave Boys. (Ully% Life, p. 83.) (Mr. B.) 5 i' i8t. PART 11. CANTO III. igr Purfue, or wave this Enterprize, This faid, he turn'd about his Steed, 200 And eftfoons on th' Adventure rid ; Where leave we Him and Ralph a While, And to the Conjurer turn our Stile, To let our Reader underftand What's ufeful of him before-hand. 205 He had been long t' wards Mat hematic ks. Op ticks y Philofophy, and Static ks. Magic kf Ho r of copy i AJirology, And was old Dog at Phyfiology : But as a T>og that turns the Spit, 10 Befiirs himfelf, and plies his Feet 2 ii. i8i, 187. Made Mars, fcrV. — Made all the Royal Stars re- cant. "X The hidden Satire of this is extremely fine ; by the feveial Planets and Signs hete recapitulated, are meant the feveral Lead- ers of the Parliament-Army who took the Co-ver.ant. As EJJ'ex and Fairfax, by Mars and Saturn. But the lall made all the Rcyal S.'ars recant, Sec evidently alludes to Charles, Eledior Palatine of the Rhine, and King Charles the Second, who both took the Cove- nant. (Mr. W.) f. 196. Gyjnnofophijl.'] Vide Jo. fcf Fra. Pici lAirandul^ op. pajjim. Cha?nbers s Cyclopedia : And their Method of educating their Difciples, SpeSlator, N" 337. f. 205. He had been long t^ivards Mathemalicks.'\ See % Tayhr'a Poem, intitled, ^ Figure-Flinger, or Couzeninsr-Cuniiing Man, Works, p. 12. Gruteri Fax Art. torn. 6. par. 2. p. 536, 537. f. 209. 210, 211, 212, 213, 214. But, as a Dog that turns the Spit, — Bcjlirs himfelf, and plies his Feet — To climb the Wheel, hut all in njain, — His ozc« Weight brings him douon again : — jlnd Jlill he's in the f elf fame Place — Where at his fetting out he es, know the Signs and the Planef-, and tk?ir HoljCs ; can ** judge of Motions direct and retrograde, of Sextilt-, Quadrates, ** Trine?, and Oppofitions, fieiy Tripons, and aquaticJ '1 rigons ; *' know whrther Life fliall be long or fhort, hap.-y or unhappy ; " whether Lifeafes are curable or incurable j il Journeys ihail be *' profperous, and Undertakings fuccefsful, or Gcods j}okn reco- ** vered : 1 know ' •p. 240. Than e'er vjas Almanack •■well-'wiUe'- ] See the Term in Ckvelanei''sCha-ader cf a London Diurnai, '^'orV^ l6-j-J p 1 03. Had the Piedfians of thofe Times known that the Church of ^ome had taken the Almanack into tlie Number of her Saints, they would never have fuffered Booker to have been a Lictnfer i-)i Alma- nacks, (as he was, fee Note on )^. 179, i?o. or / ;/7y their famed Af.rologer, and Almanack ivell-'uiilU/ , to have publilhed any thing under that Title. 1 he learned Mr, Henry Wharton 'in his Preface to his Traft, intitled, The E>:thvJiofm of the Church of Rome demonf>ated, in fame Objer'vations upon the Life of Ignatms J-Oyola, London 1688) gives the following Account. " The Church of Rome (faith he) hath taken the Almanack ** into the Number of the Saints, and canonized it under the <' ^ame of St Almachius, folemnizeth it's Memory on the firft ^' Day of January, and giveth to it an illuiirious Character in '*' \}^e.Ma tyrology. This probably proceeded from the jViiftakc »* of fome ignorant Monk, about the feventh or eighth Age, >* wto finding the Word 5. Aimanacum (San^um Almanac um) • *♦ wpttei^ PART II. CANTO III. 25 Who firft found out the Man t tij Moon, That to the Ancients was unknown ; How many Dukes, and Earls , and Peers, Are in the Planetary Spheres ; • 2^^ Their Airy Empire y and Command, Their fev'ral Strengths by Sea and Land; What Factions th' have, and what they drive In pubh'ck Yogue, or what in private; [at With what Deligns and Interefls 260 Each Party manages Contefts. ** written in the Front of the Calendar, and not knowing what to •' make of that barbarous Term, with which he was betore uh.k- *' quainted, imagined it to be feme ancient obfcure Saint, who " took up the firlt Place in the Calendar. Being pofTefTed with this *' Error, it was no hard Matter to make St. Almachius of SanSium " Almanacum, written in the old Way of Abbreviation. Having *' thu3 framed the Saint, out of good Manners he placed him after *' the Czrcumcijion of our Lord, the rvlem.cry of which is celebrated " upon tlie fa:i.e Day ; but yet to keep the former Order as much " as polfible, it ftands immediately after it, as it now continueth " in the Roman Matyrology. This unhappy Miftake was then tran- *' fcribed into many other Copies, and fo incrcafed the Rabble of " the Romijh Saints, with the Addition of St. Almcnack : After- " wards a goodly Story was framed of him, that he fufFered Mar- " ty>dom at Rome, under the Prefefture of AUpfi-us, where rcpre- " handing the Gladiators in the Ainphii hea.tr e, for their bloody " Sports, he was kiiled by them." jJ". 243, 244, 249, 250. Kne^w nxjhen Jhe -ivas iv. filtefi Mood, — . For cutting Corns, and letting Bu)od ', — Whether the Wane be, O'- In- crcafe, — Beji to fet Garlick, or fo-iu Pea e :] " The Moon in full " or wane, increafmg or decreafmg her Light, for the moii ad- •' vanta^eous fowing of Seeds, fetring, graffing, removing of Plants " or Trees, purging Eaths, and the like : 'J hough they do not be- *' long to judiciary .A ftrology, yet are commonly refer'd to it, partly *' through the Ignorance of the Multitude, but mo. ly through the ** C unning, and Arrogance, and Vanity of Aftrolcgers." (Gajj'en- du<\ Vanity of judiciary .-JJirology, chap. 1 3. p. B4. chap, 17. p. 1 12.1 fee the Account that Peter the Goatherd gives of the Scholar Chryjoficm. Dcn^dxcte, paft 1. book 2. chap. 4, p. ico. it. 265, %6 HUD IBRAS. He made an Injirument to knov/ If the Moon fhine at Full or no ; That wou'd, as foon as e'er fhe flionc, flraight Whether 'twere Day or Night denipnilratej 265 Tell what her D'?neter to' an Inch is. And prove that (he's not made of Grf^-^-f^f^. It wou'd demonflrate, that the Man in The Moon's, a. Sea Mediterranean ; And that it is no Dog nor Bitch, 270 That ilands behind him at his Breech i But a huge Cafpian Sea, or Lake With Arms, which Men for Legs miftakci How large a Giilph his Tail compofes. And what a goodly Bay his Nofe is ; 275 How many German Leagues by th' Scale ir. z6^. Tell 'what her V meter /' an Inch /V.] Dr. Harris (fee Afironomical Dialcgues, edit. 2. p. 107 ) obferves, that the Moo/?'/ Dia?neter is almoft two thoufand two hundred ?v'Iiles. Diameter in Geometry is the Line which paiTes throup;h the Middle of any Figure, from one Angle to another. Bailys Diclionary. f 266 And prcue that pi's net made of G'een'Cheffe.'\ John Taylor (fee Epigram 7, intitled, 'Jhe iicuUer, p. 22.) thus banters the poor Cambro-B: itons. The Way to make a Welch man thi fi for Blifsy And Jay his P. aye is daily on his Kmcs, Is to p:rfua.de him that riojl certain ''tis 1 he Moon is made of nothing but Green-Cheefe : And he U defu e of God no greater Boon, But Place in Hea-uen to jeed upon the Moon. it. 283, 284. ^ote Moles and Spots en any Place — O' th' Body^ hy the Index Face?^ Lilly fpcaking of his teaching his Art to one Humphreys, a Pretender to Ajidogy, fays, (Life, p 36 ) " As ^' we were at Sapper, a Client came to (beak with him, and fo *' up into his Cloiet he went with his Client, called him in before <' he fet his Figuri", or refolved the Qiiellion, and imtantly ac- " ^uainte4 PART II. CANTO III. 27 Cape Snout's from Promontory Tail. He Kiade a Planetary Gin, Which Rats would run their own Heads in. And come on purpofe to be taken, 280 Without th' Expence of Cheefe or Bacon; With Lute-firings he would counterfeit Maggots that crawl on Difh of Meat : Quote Moles and Spots on any Place O' th' Body, by the Index Face : 285 DeteOilod Maiden- Heads J by fneezing. Or breaking Wind of Da/nes, or Piffing; Cure TFarts and Corns ^ with Application Of Med cine s to th' Imagination ; Fright Agues into Dogs^ and fcare 290 With Rhimes, the Tooth-ach and Catarrh: *' q':ainted him how he fliould difcover the Holes or Maris of his " Client : He fet his Figure, and prefently difcovered four Moles *' the Querent had, and was fo overjoyed therewith, that he came ^' tumbling down Stairs, cr)-ing, four by G , four by G-^ . *' I will not take one huadred Pound for this one Kule; In fix " Week's time, and tarrying with him three Days in a \^ eek, ** he became a molt judicious Perfon." (See Hemy Coles's Key to JJirology 7u^'j filed y edit. 2. chap l6. {e£t.:ocrifus the lenghir:g Vhilofopher, cou'd do this upon a bare View of the Perfon. Pudlsque vitium lolo afpeftu deprehendit, Uo^manni Lexic. fub voce Dctnccritus. Dio- genis Lacrtii v'lt. Democriti Segm. 42 Dr. JVoitons RiJ.e^ions upon ancient and modern Learning, chap. 8. p. 104. f. 287, 288. f^nth application — Of Medicines to tl/ Imagination.'] There have been Pretenders in all Ages to the Cure of Diftempers by Amulets, which certainly require a ftrong Failh, or great Opinion of the Perfon. Variiis ^as Mr Welfier obferves, Difplay of Juppc/cd Witch crafty chap. 17. p ^24 from his p]ook, De Fafcino, lib. i. chap. 5. p 22.) quotes a Pafiige ^ijoxa Galen to this Purpofe: Sutit quidem natura laiti, qui quai.do a^grotant. 28 nUDIBRAS, Chafe evil Spirits away by dint Of Cickky Horfe-jhoe, Hollow -jiint ; agrotant, fl eos (anos futures medicus confirmet, convalefcunt ; quorum Ipes fanitaiis eft caufa : Et meciicuj fi animi defiderium incan.atione, autalicujus rei adcollum appenfione adjuverit j citius ad valetudinem perducet. I have heard of a m°rry Baronet, Sir B. B. who had great Snc- cefs in the Cure of Agues this Way : A Gentleman of his Ac- quaintance applying to him for the Cure of a llubborn Quartan, which had puzzled the Bark ; he told him he was fure he had no Faith, and would be prying into the Secret; and then notwith- ftanding he Ilaved off a Fit or two, it would certainly return a- gain : He promifed him upon his Word and Honour he would not look into it ; but when he had efcaped a fccond Fit, he had the Curiofity, notwithftanding his Promife, to open the Paper, and he found nothing in it but thefe Words, Ki/s mine • {See PhilofophicalTranJaclions, vol. 15. num. 78. p. izSg.) Re- markable was the famous Mr. Stlden^ Cure of a ilypoehondriacal Perfon of Quality, who complained to him, that he had Devils in his Head, but was affured he could cure him. Mr. Selden trufting to the great Opinion the Gentleman had of him, wrapped a Card in Silk, advinng him to wear it about his Neck, and live regularly in all Rcfpefts, and he doubted not the Succefs of his Remedy : With which, and a little \ ariation of the Form of a fe- cond Time, he was in a fmall Time perfedlly well, and never re- lapfed into that Difordcr, (Table-Talk., p. 49 ) No Icfs remarkable is the Account of Kicpruli Numan Pajha^ prime Vizir to Ahmed the Thii-d, who, though a Man of great Learning, had contraded fo ridiculous a Fancy, as to imagine that there v/as a Fly always fitting upon his Nofe : '* All the Phy- *' ficians in Co.ijlantinopk were conruited upon that Occafion. and " after they had long in vain uf d all their Endeavours, one he " Due, a French Phyfician, found Means to apply a fuitable Re- *' medy to the Diftemper; for he did not go about as the reft to *' argue with him, that it was all Fancy, but when he was brought ** to the fick Man, and afked by him. Whether he faw the Fljr ** that was fitting upon his Nofe ? He faid he did, and by that *' prudent Piffimulation induced the difordered Perfon to place *' the utmoft Confidence in him. After which he ordered him fe- ** veral innocetit Juleps, under the Name of purging and opening *' Med cines ; at laft he drew a Knife gently along his Nofe, as *' if he was going to cut oifthe Fly, which he kept in his Hand " for that Purpofe : Whereupon Numan Pajha immediately cried " out, This is the very Fly that has fo plagued me: And thus ** he was perfeftly cured of that whimfical Fancy." (Prince Can- PART II. CANTO III. a^ Spit Fire out of a Wcilmct-JJjellt Which made the Roman Slaves rebel > fexir^s Hifiory of the Gro^^th of the Othman Empire, &c. part 2. book 4. p. 449 Note. Mr. Scot tells us of a Hypochondriacal Perfon, who fancied, tliat his Nofe was as big as an Houfe (Difco-jcry of Witchcraft, p, 53 ;) and Mr. (Gayton, Notes upon Don Quixote, book 3. chap. 12. p. 158.) makes Mention of the humorous Pratftice of an Apo- thecary, upon a Gentleman who fancied he had fwallowed a Moufe : See Mr. Samuel Wtfeyh Tale of the Cobler, in his Poems. Amulets of all Kinds expofed, in Scoth Difcovery of Witchcraft^ book 12. p. 2 If-, &c. ■jr. 289, 290. And fare — With Rhimesthe Tooth- ach, &c.] Bartholin the famous Phyfcian and Anatomili, was of Opinion, " That Diitempers, particularly the Epilepfy, might be ** removed by Rhimes.^^ (Wcbfterh Di/play of fupp.Jtd Witchcraft, chap. 17. p. 3.) And Mr. Sot fays, (Dfcovery rf Witchcraft, book 3. chap 15. p 64.) " That xhe hijh ftick not to affirm, *' that they can Rhime either Man or Bead to death, and that the *' Wef 'Indians and Mufovites do tl^ie like. ' And where the Tooth- ach might be removed in this Manner, there was no Occafion for Ben Jchnfoiis Tooth-Dravjer, " Who," he obferves, fihtpherd'i Holiday, Works, vol. i. p. 120.) " commanded any Man's Teeth " out of his Head upon the Point of his Ponyard, or tickled them *' forth with his Riding-rod : Drew Teeth on Horfe-back in full " Speed ; was Yeoman of the Mouth to the whole Brotherhood *' of Fencers ; and was charged to fee their Gums kept clean, *' and their Breath fweet at a Minute's Warning." fchn Taylor, id^c Water-poet, banters fuch Pretenders { Figure-Fli7igcr, p. 23.) He can releafe, or elfe increafe all Alarms, About the Neck or Wrift by tying C harms : He has a Trick to kill the Ague's Force, And make the Patient better, or ?nuch ivorfe. To the great Toe three Letters he can tie. Shall make the Gout to tarry, or elfefy : With t-vjo Words, and three Leaqjes offour-lea-v'd Grafs, He makes the Tooth-achjiay, repajs, or pafs, •jr. 291, 292. Chafe enjil Spirits anjcay by dijit — Of CickU, Horfe^ Jhot, &c.] Mr. Gayton obferves (fee Notes upon Don ^ixote, book 3. chap. 4. p. 104) upon Sanchos tying both Rofnante\ Legs with his Afs's Halter, " That the Don prefcntly fmells oat ** the Bufinefs, an Incantation upon the Horfe, for Want of nail- " ing his old Shoes at the Door of his Houfe, when he came « forth." An4 30 tlUD IBRAS. 295 And fire a Mine in China herCj With fympathetic Gun-powder, He knew whatf'ever's to be known, But much more than he knew, would own* And Mr. Scot (Difco--oery of Witchcraft, book 12. ch. 18. p. 266.)- " That to prevent or cure all Mifchiefs wrought by Charms or *' Witchcrafts, according to the opinion of M. Mai. and others, *' one principj] Way is to nail a Horfe-fhoe at the Infide of the " outmoll 1 hrefhold of your Houfe, and fo you (hall be fure no ** Witch fhall have Power to enter thereinto: And if you mark ■*' it, you fhall find that Rule obferved in many a Country-houfe."' The wild Irijh, by way of Prefer^'ative, prasftifed fonlething like it. Camdeiii, Britannia, edit. 1695. ''°44' i/. 293, 294. Spit Firs out of a Walnut -pell, — Which made the Roman Slaves rebel {] Alluding to the Ser-vile War, headed by Spartacus, and occafioned by the following Incident, which I fhall give in the Words of my Author: Syrus quidam nomine Eunus (magnitudo cladium facit ut me- minerimus) fanatico furore fimulato, dum Syria- Dea comas jadlat; ad libertatem, ?< arma fervos, quafi numinum imperio concitavit: idque ut divinitas fieri probaret, in ore abdita nuce, quam fulphure & igne liipavcrat, Icniter infpirans, Flammam inter verba fundebat : hoc miraculum primum duo millia ck obviis ; mox jure belli refraJtis ergafiulis, fexaginta amplius millium fecit ex- ercitum, regiifque, ne quid mali deefiet, deccratus iniignibus^ cailella, oppida, vicos miferabili direptione vaftavit. (Vide Bell. Ser-jil. Litcii Fieri, lib. 3. cap. 19, p. 329. Edit. Varior. 1660. Lii;ii Hiftcr. lib. 56. cap. 30, 31, &cQ. tom. vi. p. 354. Edit,- y. Clerici.) f. 299, 300. What Medicine it ivas that ParacAfus — Could make a Man PART II. CANTO III. 31 What Medicine 'twas that Paracelfus 300 Could make a Man with, as he tells us : What figur'd Slates are beil to make On watry Surface Tiuck or Drake ; atur, & pafcatur, & per quadraginta feptimanas in perp?tuo & sequabili calore 'ventris equini confervetur, fit inde verus & vivus infans, habens omnia membra infantis, qui ex muliere natus eft, fed longe minor. Hunc nos Homunculum vocamus, & is poftea eo modo quo alius infans fumma diligvntia & ftudio educandus eft, donee adolefcat, & fapere & intelligere incipiat. Hoc jam eft unum ex maxinjis fecretis, qn^e Deus mortali, Sc peccatis obnoxio homini, patefecit. Eft enim miraculum & n;agnale Dei, & arca- num fuper omnia arcana, & merito in fecretis fervari oebet ufque ad extrema tempora, quando nihil erit rcconditi, fed omnia ma- nifeftabuntur, & quanquam hoc haftenus hominibus notum nori fueric, fuit tamcn Syl-uejinbus & Nympbis (Anglice Sjlphs) Sc gi- gantibus ante multa tempora cognitum, qui inde etiam orti funt. Quoniam ex talibus Homu7!culis, cum ad astatem virilem perveniunt, fiant Gigantes, Pygmeei, Sc alii homines magni mira;ulofi, qui in- ftrumenta funt magnarum rcrum, qui magnas viftorias contra fuos hoftes obtinent, & omnia fecreta & abfcondita nov'erunt quoniam arte acquii-unt quam vitam, arte acquirunt corpus, carncm, ofia, & fanguinem, arte nafcuntur ; quare etiam ars ipfis incorporatur, Sc connafcitur, & a nullo opus eft ipfis difcere, quoniam ab arte orti funt, & exiltunt. Parc.celf. de General. Rerum Natural, lib. i . (Dr. H.) See Biiliver's Artificial Changeling, chap. 24. p. 4.9. Parker de Deo, Londitii, 1665. p. 73. Annotations on Bro^uvt*s Religio Medici, 1672. p. 112. Fan Helmont, a Brother CJiemift, pre- tended to make Mice from Wheat ffide Op. par. I. p. 71. edit- Lugduni, 1667.) Both which carry with them the fame degree of Credibility, with the Story of Pantagruel s begetting three and fifty thoufand little Men, or Dwarfs, with one F — t ; and with hh Fij'gs, or Fizzles, the fame Number of little vVomen. Rabg- lais's JVorksy vol. 2. b. 2. chap. 27. p. 199. edit. 1735- ;^. 301, 302. What figured Elates are hefi to make — On ^jjatry Surface Duck or Drake;] " Neither Crofs, nor Pile, nor Ducks *' and Drakes, are quite fo ancient as Handy-dandy, though Ma^ *' crohius and St. Aufiin take notice of the firft, and Minutius " Felix defcribes the latter. Memoirs of Martinus Scriblcrusy book I. chap. 5. p. 32,- 9' 307> 32 HVDIBRAS. What Bowl'mg-Jioties in running race Upon a Board, have fwifeft Pace : 305 Whether a Piilfe beat in the black Lift of a dappled Loufes Back : If Syjiole or Diajiole move Quickeft when he's in Wrath, or Love; When two of them do run a Race, 310 Whether thty gallops trjty or pace : How many Scores a Flea will jump. Of his own Length, from Head to Rump ; Which Socrates, and Chcsrephon In vain, affay'd fo long agon ; :^. 307, 308. If SyJloIe or Diajiole moi'e — Sluichji ivhen he is in H raff} or Lo'vc{] See S)fic!e end Dtajiclc of a Louje, Dr. Hook's Micrographia, obferv. 54. Of a Louj'c. p. 212. f, 310. IVbfther they gallop, trot, or pace :"[ Sqs John Tajlor'i JVorks, p. 99. Rajs Englp Pro-verbs, p. 280. f. 311, 312. Ho~jo tnajiy Jcores a Flea nx'ill jump, — Of his oivn Length, from fieaJ to Rump ;] Dr. Giles Fletcher informs us (fee Purchafeh Pilgrims, part 3. book 3. p. 431.) that BazilovAta the Great Duke (or rather Tyrant) of Mufco-vy, fent to the City of Mcfcoiv, to provide " for him a Meafure full of li--je Fleas, for *' a Medicine. They anfwered, the thing was impoiTible ; and " if they could get them, they could not meafure them, becaufe " of their k aping out. Upon which he fct a Multl: upon them, " of feven thoufand Rubles. ' And yet as difficult as this was, fomething of this kind was undertaken by the Friend of 71 jealous Hujband, (fee I Eftronge's Fables, vol. i. fab. 212.) to whoie *. are he had committed his Wife for fome time ; but he defned to be releafed. *' H (fays he) it were to turn a bag of Fleas into a *' Meadow every Morning, and fetch them home again at Night, " I duril be anfwerable with my Life for the doing of it to a Flea ; *' but t'other is a Commiffion I dare meddle no farther in." j^. 314, 315. Which Socrates, and Charephon — In vain affay d fo long agon ;] * Arifophanes, in his Comedy of the Clouds, brings in Socrates and Charephon n eafuring the Leap of a Flea, from the one's Beard to the other's. Upon which Moufet obfervcs (In- fe^or, Theatr. lib. 2. cap. 28. p. 276.) Horum dum aucupes men- PART IL CANTO III. 23 3 1 j* Whether his S?20ut a perfe» ^^^■J>io•^ See T". Coryat\ Preface upon Travel, prefix'd to his Crudities, Mo lefs humorous than this, is the Cuftom mentioned by Huetius, of their chufing at Hardenberg the chief Magiftrate by a Lopfe : Venimus Hardenb'urgam Minime vero leftori injucutidum fore puto cognofcere, quo ritu Conful illic creari folet, uti qui- dem ab Oppidanis accepimus. — — Hinc Hardejiburgam fera fub nofte venimus, Ridetur veteri nobis mos duftus ab £evo ; Quippe ubi deligitur revoluto tempore Conful> Barbati circa menfam flatuuntur acervam, Hifpidaque apponunt attenti, menta Quirites : Porrigitur feries barbarum, defuper ingens Beilia, Pes mordax, fueta inter crefcere fordes, Barbam adiit, felio huic ; gratantur murmare patres, Atqiie celebratur fubjecta per oppida Conful. Huetii Comment, de rebus ad fe fertinentibus, 1718. p. "^G, Or the Choice of a Mayor fomewhere in EJfex, by a Calf ; the Competitors having a Wifp of Hay ftuck in their B — ms. Hi- iraclitus ridens, a". 66. f. 315, 316. WhefLiV his Snout a perfcSl Nofe is, — And not an Elephant's Probofcis ; ] Probofcidis mucro pauIo eft rigidicr, iit cutem faeilius penetret. Monfeti hifeSlor. Theatr. lib. 2. cap. 28. See a farther Account of a Flea's Probcfcii, Dr. Hock's Micrograph. obferv. 53. p. 7,10. Some Microfcopical Obfervations on the Strudlure of the Spleen and Probofcis of Fleas, by Mr. Anthony Van Leuenheck F R. S. PhilofcphicalTranfaitions, vol. 25. numb. 307. p. 231 1, 2312. ^' 3I7> 318. Eo^M many diff'rent Speciefes — Of Maggots breed in rotten Cheefe \\ .Syj^c/V/i in Editions 1664, 1674, 1684, a'ter'd to Speciifes, i&8g. —Others auer, that Mites in Cheefe Live in a Monarchy, like Bees ; Have Civil Lanvs, and Magif rates. Their Rife, their Periods, and Fates, Like other Ponvers and Stales. And by a Jirange peculiar Art, Can hear themjneeze, dijcourfe, andf — /. (A Pindarick Poem, to the Society of Beaux Efprits,\i. 1!^.) Vol.11. C f. 32a. I 34 nu D I B RA S, And which are next of kin to thofe 020 Engender'd in a Chandlers, Nofe ; Or thofe not feen, but underftood. That live in Vinegar and JVood. A paultry Wretch he had, half-ilarv'd. That him in Place of Zany ferv'd, 325 Hight Whachum, bred to dafh and draw. Not Wine^ but more unwholefome Law ; To make 'twixt Words and Lines huge Gaps* Wide as Meridiajis in Maps -, •^. 322. That live in Vinegar — ] See Dr. Hook's AccoMni oi Fi- negar Wormsy Micrographia, obferv. 57. p. 2 1 6. ii, 324. In Place of Zany\ A Buffoon, or 'Jack-Pudding, In Trance he is called Jcan-Pottages, in Italy Macaronies, in Holland Pickled-Herring. Sped at or, numb. 47. Mx. Theobald, in a Note upon Shakrfpears Play, intitled, ^//'j nuell that ends vjell, acl 3, vol. 2. p, 401. obfei-ves, " I'hat it *' was a Foolery pra£tifed at City Entertainments, whilil; the ** Jejler or Zany was in vogue, for him to jump into a large deep ** Cuftard, fet on Purpofe, to fet on a quantity of barren Spectators *' to laugh ; as our Poet fays in his Hamlet.''^ I do not advance this without fome Authority, and a Quotation from Ben John/on will very well explain it : He ne'er ivill be admitted there n.v.here Vennor comes \ He may, perchance, in tayl of a Sheriff's Dinner Skip Hvith a Rhime 0' th' Table ^vith tie-iv nothings And take his Almaiti-leap into a Cuftard ; Shall make my Lady May' refs and her Sifters Laugh all their Hoods over their Shoulders. De-uil's an Afs, aft 1. fc. r. This might occafion as much Mirth as the Cook's ferving up tht D-ivarf'in a Pie. (See Mr. Cle-veland'sWorks, Ed. 1677. p 103.) ^. 325. Hight Whachum,^ journeyman to Sidrephel, who was (fays Sir Roger VEftrange) one Tom Jones, a foolilh Wcljhman. In a Key to a Poem cfMr. Butler's, 170b. in folio, p. 14. Mlmc- hum is faid to be one Richard Green, wlvo publilhed a Pamphlet of about five Sheets of bafe Ribaldry, and called, Hudibras in a Snare, It was printed about the Year 1667. 3 f' 327* tART II. CANTO III. ^5 To fquander Paper, and fpare Ink, 530 Or cheat Men of their Words, fome think* From this, by merited Degrees, He'd to more high Advancement rife j To be an Under-Cottjurery Or Journeyman Ajlrohger : 335 His Buf'nefs was to pump and wheedle, And Men with their own Keys unriddle, To make them to themfelves give Anfwers, For which they pay the Necromancers ; f. -i^zj, 328, 329, 330. To make ^tnuixi Lines and Words huge Vn/)s, — Wii/s as Msridians in Maps ; — To fquander PapT and .fpare Ink, — Or cheat Men of their PVords, feme ihinki\ Alluding either to Bills in Chancery, where fifteen Lines are contained in each Sheet, and fix Words in each ; ine. Or to blank Inflrtanents humoroufly bantered by the 5)!'^t'?a/'or, [numb. 563.) " I T. Blank Efq; of Blank Town in the County of Blank, *• do own myfelf indebted in the Sum of Blank, to Goodman " Blank, for the Service he d d me in procuring the Goods *' following Blank : -ind I do hereby promiie the faid Blank, to *' pay to him the faid Sum of Blank, on tlie Blank Day of the *' Month of Blank next enfuing, under the Penalty and Forfeiture " of Blank." Your Blanks are ancient iiurr^rsvs Folks ; There s lohn a ' tyles, and 'John a Nokesi There's Dajh fcribendoy and hiatus And innui ;:do, that points at us ; Eke fo, d^yefee, as I m.-iyfay. And fo forth-, and l£ cater a. On the Fatnily of the Blanks, M'fcellaneous Poems, publilh- ed by Z>. L^'vois, 1730. p. 289. jr. 235, 236. His Bufitefs 'was to pump and nuheedle, — And Men njoith their cvjn Keys unriddle.'] We have in this Age been peller'd with Sidrcphels and Wbachums, who were arrived at a greater Height of Jugling and Cheating than thofe in Hudibras^ Time were : To prove this, I fhall only r,ivc the Reader the Device o^ iiSidrophel in. M.or-felds, as related hy the spectator, numb, 193 ) ** The Dodilor having gained much Reputation by his horafy Fre- ** diilicns, is faid to have had in his Pai lour different Ropes to little C 3 " Bells, 36 nVDIBRAS. To fetch and carry Intelligence ^ 340 Ofwhom, and what, and where, and whence. And all Difco'veries difperfe Among th' whole Pack of Conjurers 5 What Ctit-purfes have left with them. For the right Owners to redeem : 345 And what they dare not vent, find out, To gain themfelves, and th' Art Repute ; Draw Figures, Schemes, and Horofcopes, Of Newgate J Bri Jewell, Brokers Shops, *' Bells, which hung in a Room above Stairs, where the Defter •' thought fit to be oraculous. If a Girl had been deceived by ** a Lover, one Bell was pulled j and if a Peafant had loft a Cow, ** the Servant rang another. This iVIethod was kept in relpedl *' to all other Paffions and Concerns ; and the fldlful Waiter be- " low fifted the Enquirer, and gave the Doftor Notice accord- •* ingly " (Mr. B.J See an Account of the League between Stephen Taylor and one Pope, the one to Ileal Horfes, and the other to diicover them. Abjiracl cf Scot's Hift. cf Witchcraft . Britifi Librarian, numb. 4. for September, 1737, p. 223. And an Account of a Calabriat Ajirologer and Phyjician, Turkijh Spy, vol. 6. book 2. Letter 19. ir. 347, 348. Dranju Figures, Schemes, and Horofcopes, — 0/ ^envgate, Brideixell, Brokers S'.ops^ See this Piece of Grimace in Aftrologers, expofed hy Ben. John/on, Akhymijl, aft i. fc. 3* P- 537. f. 353. Who pick'da Fob at Holding-forth,'\ Js ig. At Plays, and at Sermons, and at the SeJ/tons^ "Tis daily their Pra£iicefuch Booty to make ; OTea, under the GiJlo^vs, at Executions, *Fhey Jlick not the Stareabouts Purfes to take : Nay one litncut Grace uit a better Place, At Court, and in Chrijimafs, before the King's Face; Alas then for Pity, miij} I bear the Curfe That only belongs to the cunning Cut-purfe Ben. Johnfons BartholomcTv Fair, aft 3. fc. 5". A Frtncb Poet obferves of a Jefuit^ that lie will pick youP Pocket PART II. CANTO III. 37 Of Thieves afcendant in the Cart ; 350 And find out all by Rules oi Art : Which Way a Serving-man, that's run With Cloaths or Money away, is gone 5 Who pick'd a Fob at Holdhig-forthy And where a Watch^ for half the Worth, 355 May be redeem'd j or ftolen Plate Reftor'd at confcionable Rate. Befide all this, he ferv'd his Majler In quality of Poetajier : Pocket in the Middle of his Pafer nojier. (Sir Roger VEJlrang^t Reflexion upon the Fable of a Cat and Venus ^ part i. fable 6i.) And a Pick-pocket obferving that the Times were pretty difficult, faid, " The Lord be praifed for it, the Churches are pretty full " flill." (UEjirange's Fables, part 2. fab. 29. j The Author of the Tale of a Tub gives us a Reafon why the Preaching of the DiJ^ /enters \% cdXltA holMng-forih (p. 212.) fpeaking of the Preachers of thofe Times, he fays " That the devout Sifiers, who looked *' upon all Dilatations of the Ear as Protrufions of Zeal, of fpi- '* ritual Excrefcences, were fare to honour every Head they fat ** upon, as if they had been cloven Tongues : But efpecial'y that *' of the Preachers, whofe Ears were ufually of the prime Magai- " tude, which upon that account he was frequent in expofing ** with all the Advantages to the People : in his rhetoricc^ ^'a- *' roxyfrns turning fometimes to hold forth the one, and foraetimes " to hold forth the other, Fro;n which Cuftom, the whole Ope- " ration of Preaching is to this very Day, among their Profeffors, ** ftyled by the Phraie o^ Holding-forth" Mr. Cu' veland ohferves {Character of a Diurnal-maker, Works 1 677. p. 108.) " That *' in the Gibberifh of the Saints of thofe Times, a Hinter dif- *« fered from a Holder-fort h" f. 355, 356. — or fiolen Plate — Ref or'' d at confcionable Rate. \ In 1655 Lilly was indifted 0.x. Hickes's-Hall for giving jpdgmenC for a Reward upon ftolen Goods, but acquitted. (See Hfiory of his Life, p. 71. and the Indidment, p. U5. General Hi ftorical DiSiicnary, vol. 7. p. 85.) John Taylor ohkrvts ( Figure-flinger, 'Woxlis, p. 13.) that thefe Gentlemen were ufually paid, v/hether they recovered the ftolei> Goods or not ; C3 if ^8^ H U D I B R A S, And Rhymes appropriate could make "60 To ev'ry Month 1' th' Ahnanack ; When Terins begin and end could tell, With their Returns m Doggerel: When the Exchequer opes and (huts ; And Sowgeider with Safety cuts ; 365 When Men may eat and drink their Fill, And when be temp'rate if they will ; When ufe, and when abflain from Vice, Figs, Grapes, PLhbctcm)', and Spice, And as in Prifon mean Rogues beat '370 Hempy for the Service of the Great j So Whachum beat his dirty Brains, T' advance his Mailer's Fame and Gains 5 And like the Devil's Oracksy Iflofi Goods you 'u:ouldfain ba've got. Go but to hiMy and you jhull fpted or not. But he --jLiU gair, -ju bet her you git or lofe. tit II baiie his Fee, forfo the Bargain goes, 3^. 359, 360. Ajid Rhymes appropriate could make — To ev\y, Mbnth i' th^ Ahnanack \\ A Sneer probably upon John Booker, who, as Lilly obferves, (fee Hijicry 'f his ci.vn Life, p. 28.) made ** excellent Verfes upon the twelve Months, framed according «' to the Configurations of each." 3^. 368. — Phlehcto/?iy,'] Though this Word, which fjgnifies no more than lettir,g-Mood, is generally underllood ; yet fome may poffibly millake the Mea.ning of it, as did Mr. Lo-~jeli?ht (Plain. Dealer, vol. I. numb. 27. p. 210.) of whom Mrs. Lnitia Lc-ve~ light, his Wife, gives the following Account : '* We came to '' town (fays fhe the laft Week, where my poor Dcr.r d.ank ** hard, and fell fo iil that I was alarm'd for him. — The Lady *' whofe llcufe we lodged at would needs iend for Dr. F'Jile, a Man ** of excellent Learning, but, to borrow a Pbrafe of Shake/pear's, y It is Jickened o-ver ixnth J_fcciation. When he had felt my *' Hufaand's Pulfe, and gone through a Courfe of Queftions, he 'S\ turned from whifpering Mr. Juniper, who was in waitinj^, and *"• fai4 PART II. CANTO III. 39 Put into Doggrel Rhymes his Spells ^ 375 Which over ev'ry Month's blank Page r th' Almanacky ftrange Bilks prefage. He would an Elegy compofe On Maggot's fqueez'd out of his Nofe 5 In Lyric Numbers write an Ode on 380 His Miflrefs, eating a Black-pudden : And when imprifon'd Airefcap'd her. It puft him with Poetic Rapture. His Sonnets charm'd th' Attentive Crowd, By wide-mouth'd Mortal troU'd aloud, 3B5 That, circled with his long-ear'd Guefts, Like Orpheus look'd among the Beafls j A Carman % Horfe could not pafs by. But flood ty'd up to Poetry ; ** faid to me with a phxjical Air, not the Air cf a Phyjicianf " — Maam, I have ordered Mr. what's his Name, your Spouze's " Apothecary, to phlebotomize him To-morrow Morning. — To *' do what with me ? cry'd my poor Hufband, fiarting up in hii *' Bed ; I will never fuffer it. — No, I am not, I thank God, in fo ** defperate a Condition as to undergo fo damnable an Operation *' as that is. — .As what is r my Dear, anlwered I, fmlliag ; the *' Dodlor would have you blooded. — Ay, for bleeding, replied *' he, I like it well enough; hat for that other Thing he orderedf " 1 will fooner die than fubmit to it." 3^* 373» 374' ■^'^'^ ^'^^ the Devil's Oracles, — Put into Doggrel Rhymes his Spells,'] The moft reverend, his Grace the Lord Aich- bilhop of Canter buty obferves, (Antiquities of Greece, vol. I. chap. 9 ) " That Py'thia, the Prieilefs oi Apollo, in Pyrr bus's Time, *' had left off giving Anfwers in Verfe, wliich had been the Cu- *' ftom of all former Ages from the Foundation of the Oracle ; de- " riving it's Original from Pha-monoe the firft Pythia.^' Vide Alexand, ab Alexandra, Genial. Dier. lib. 6. cap. 2. De Delphico Oraculo. if. 386. Like Orpheus, &c.] See Mr. Fentcns 0/er-vations upon Mr. Waller's Poems, p. 22, 23. f. 387. A Carman's Horfc could not pafs by^ See Wafpe's Ac- C 4 ' count ij.0 HU D I B RA S. No Porter's Burthen pafs'd along, 390 But ferv'd for Burthen to his Song ; Each Window Hke a Pill'ry appears, With Heads thruft thro', nail'd by the Ears 5 All Trades run in as to the Sight Of Monfters, or their dear Delight 395 The Galiow Tree^ when cutting Purfe Breeds Buf nefs for Heroic Verfe, Which none does hear but would have hung T' have been the Theme of fuch a Song, Thofe two together long had liv'd, 400 In Manjion prudently contriv'd ; Where neither Tree nor Houfe could b^r The free Detedion of a «SV(7r jj And nigh an ancient Obelijk count of his young Mailer, Ben. Johnforis Bariholomeiu Fair^ aft I. fc. 4. if. 39 C, 396. 'J he Gallo-jj Tree, ivhen cu'ting Purfe — Breeds Bufncfs for heroic f^erfe,'\ " I could mak°; ^'cu a true Relation *' offome if&ys Giflendus, Vanity cfjudklary Afirohgy, p. I 5 I.) *' who having been told by Jjtrologcrs, that they fhouid die by a *' Rope, have, to prevent the Shame of the common Gallows, " hanged themfelves, when they had no other Occahon of Dif- " content." ■jf. 397, 398. Which n:ne does hear hut ivculd haze htwg — T' ha've been the Theme cf fuch a Song.'] Efpecally if the firft Squire Ketc/i had been the Executioner, of whom it was obferved by his Wife, " That any Bungler m;ght put a Man to Death, but that her ** Huiband only knew how to make aicntleman die fv, cetly." f. 400. In Manfion frudently co'itri'v' d \\ Lillys Houfe was at^ florjkam in the Parilh of kPalton upon Thames., where he tcllf us he. conftantly lived when he was not in London. As to the following Story, upon which the Poet is fo pleafint, he prudently omits the ynemion of it in his life, as knowing it could not redound to his j^onour or Rejjutation. (Mr. B.) i'- 494'. m^Jl. ir //>.^rM J.Al:/iiJ^Jir, PART II. CANTO III. 41 Was rais'd by him, found out by Fijky £^0^^ On which was written, not in Words, But Hieroglyphic mute of Bij'ds, Many rare pithy Saws concerning The Worth of AJlrologic Learning : From Top of this there hung a Rope, 410 To which he faflen'd Tele/cope , The Spediacles with which the Stars He reads in fmallefl CharaSiers. It happen'd as a Boy, one Nighty Did fiy his Tarfel of a Kite ; 415 The flrangeft long-wing'd Hawk that flies. That, hke a Bird of Paradife, Or Herauld's Martlet^ has no Legs, Nor hatches young on^s, nor lays Eggs-, ^. 404. — Found out by Fijk,"] La Fijh, a pretended Aftrologer and Tuf^ler, is mentioned in Fletcher''' Tragedy of Rollo Duke of Normandy, a£l 4. fc. I, 2, 3. But Mr. Bulk'- alludes to one Fifi, of whom Lilly obrer\'es (in his Life, fecond edit. p. 29.) that he was a Licentiate in Phyfic, and born near Framlingham in Suffolk ; was bred at a Country School, and dcugned for the Univerfity, but went not thither; fludying Phyfic and Aftrology at home, which afterwards he prac • tifed at Cdchejiery after which he came to London, and pradli'ed there.. Lilly fays, he had good Skill in the Art of Diredions upon Nativities ; and that he learnt from him many things in that Way, and how to know good Books in that Art. He was famous about the Year 1633, and died in the 78th Year of his Age. Z/V/y's Life., P- 3«. 39-) i?, 407. Ma7iy rare pithy Sa'uis\ A "Saw, an old or grave Saying, a Proverb, a Maxim. Eaily\ Did. f. 416, 417. That, like a Bird of Paradife, — OrHerauWs Martlet, has no Legs^ Mr. Willoughby (in his Ornitholcgy, b. 2. chap. 12. p. 90.) gives the following Account in Proof of the Birds of Paradife having Legs : " I myfelf, faith Johannes d$ Laet^ 42 IIV D I B RA S. His Train was fix Yards long. Milk-white, 420 At th' End of which, there hung 2i Light, Inclos'd in La?ithorn made of Papery That far off like a Star did appear. This Sidrophel by chance efpy'd. And with Amazement flaring wide, 425 Blefs us ! quoth he, what dreadful Wonder Is that, appears in Heaven yonder ? A Comet, and without a Beard I Or Star that ne'er before appear'd ? Last, " have two Birds of Paradife of different Kinds, and have " feen many others, all which had Feet, and thofe truly, for the ^' Bulk of their L'Odies, fufiiciently great, and very ftrong Legs : ^' The fame is confirmed by Margra-oius Clufius in his Exotics, " and Wormius in his Mi>Ja;um, p. 295. — Thefe moft beautiful *' Birds as JUrouandus report?, are called by the Inhabitants of *' the Molucca Tilands, Ma7iucodiat^r, i. e. God''s Birds. They *' are cMed Birds of Paradi/e, both for their excellent Shape, and ** Beauty of their Bodies ; and alfo becaufe where they are bred, *' u'hence they come, and whither they betake themfelvcs is un- *' known, fmce they are fund only dead. And the Vulgar ima- " gine them to drop out of Heaven or Paradife." (See Le Blanch Tra^jailes, parti, chap. 27. p. 115.) They are of various Colours, lome white and fcarlet, others white and yellow. (Pu chafe's Pilgrims, vol. 5. book 2. chap. 7. P- l°5-) As to the Martlet in Heraldry ; it is a little Bird reprefented with-- oat Feet, but with Legs ; and it is ufed as a Difference, or Mark of Diftindion, of the Fourth i:rother. (Di^. to Guillim's Difplay of Heraldry, laftedit.) See an Account of the .5/flf/^- Ma////?, or S-vjift^ (WV.l.ughbfi Ornithology, book 2. p 214.) 3^.427. A Comet, and -xvithout a Beard !'\ See an Account of the P,V7 t/j and ^ails of Comets, Dr. Harris^ Ajlronomical Dialogues, p. ir^8 to 145 inclufive, fecond edit. Lexicon Techmcum, under the Word Comet. Chamhers's Cyclopedia. Baily s Diilionary, fol. edit. A n Account of the Comet in the Year 1 6 1 8 . 'Jchnfoni Rerum Bri- tannic, hiifi. lib. 17. p. 530. And an Account of the Nature of Comets, Spencerh Prodigies, fecond edit. p. 282. it. 42S, PART II. CANTO III. 43 I'm certain 'tis not in the Scrowl 430 Of all thofe Beads, andFifli, and Fov/1, With which, like Indian Plantations, The learned flock the Conjiellations; Nor thofe that drawn for Signs have bin. To th' Houfes where the Planets inn. ^2S ^^ rnuft be fupernatural, Unlefs it be that Cannon-ball That, Ihot i' th' Air point-blank upright. Was borne to that prodigious Height, f. 428. Or Star that ne'er before appea>''d r'l See an Account of fuch Stars, Yix.Harris'i AJirommtcal Dialogues, p. 6;, 85. Lexicon Technicum, \xnd.tv x)\G Title oi Fixed Stars. VIt. Fentons Ob/cr-ja- tions upon Mr. Waller s Poems, quarto, p. 80. Of the new Star that appeared in the Year 1670. Fhilofopk.Tranfadiois, vol.4, numb, 65. p. 2087. And a fhort Hiftory of feveral new Str.rs that have appeared within one hundred and fifty Years, to the Year 17 15. Philo/ophical Tranfa^ions, numb. 346. vol. 29. p. 353. S?. 429. Pin certain ^tis not in the Scroll, Sec] See Dr. HarnV^ .Ajironomical Dialogues, p. 30. f. 433, 434. Nor thofe that dravm for Signs ha've bin, — To th* Houfes Inhere the Planets inn.] " You fee (fays Dr. Harris, Jfrc- nomical Dialogues, p. 30.) " why Aftronotncrs call them the twelve •' Signs ; becaufe they begin, or mark out the Place of the Sun in *' the Heavens ; and alfo why Jftrologers call them Houfes, be- *' caufe they afligned them for Dwellings, or Places of abode for ** \h.& Planets. Gafendus (ce Faf^ity cfjudicia'y Aflrclogy, chap. II. p. 52.) demoiifhes the cclefial Houfes, and merrily obferves (p. 55.) " That that Man had no dull, nor unplcafant Fancy, who " firft made the Planets provide Stables for Beafts in the Heavens, *' and take care of greater Cattle in the twelftli Houfe, and fmaller *' inthefixth." j. 436. Unlefs it be that Canncn-balF] * " The Experiment " was tried by fome foreign Virtuof, \\\\o planted a Piece of Ord- " nance point-blank againft the Zenith, and having fired it, the *' Bullet never returned back again ; v/hich made them all con- " elude that it fticks in the Mark : But Des Cartes was of Opmion " that it does but hang in the Air." Sec more, Tale cfa Tub^ f. 252, 44 HU D I B RA S. That learn'd Philofophers maintain, 440 It ne'er came backwards down again; But in the Airy Region yet. Hangs like the Body of Mahomet : For if it be above the Shade, That by tht Ear t/fs round Bulk is made, 445 'Tis probable it may from far Appear no Bullet, but a Star. This faid, he to his Engine flew, Plac'd near at Hand, in open View, And rais'd it 'till it leveli'd right 4^0 Againfl the Glow-n,vorm Tail of Kite, Then peeping thro', Biefswsl (quoth he) It is a Planet now I fee ; And, if I err not, by his proper Figure^ that's like Tobacco-Jiopper, 455 It fhould he Saturn: yes, 'tis clear, 'Tis Saturn, but what makes him there ? He's got between the Dragons Tail, ** A Pay of Light runs between the Sun and Earth in fix oi* •* feven Minutes ; and yet a Cannon-ball, ruppofing it to move all " the Way as faft as when it jail: parts from the Gun, cannot ar- *' rive at the Sun in twenty-five Years." (Dr. Harris's Afironoin. Diah^ues, p. 75.) And at one of the fixed Stars in 50000 Years, (Id. ib. p. 82.) f. 453, 454, 455. And, if I err not, by his proper — Figure, that's tike Tobacco Jiopper, — It Jhould be Saturn, — ] If a Tobacco ftopper is turned fo, a~. to have around Knob Ihooting out with two Ends, (and there are many fuch) it will be like the Print we have of Sa- turn in many Books of Allronomy. (Dr. JV. W.J "Dv. Harris '(cQ Jfroncmical Dialogues, p. 134., 135.) calls this but a mere Ridicule: "Though (he fays, it has its Ufe ; for it " imprefles itfelf, and the Thing ibonger in the Memory than per- *^ haps a more juft and ferious Defcription would have done." PART II. CANTO III. 45 And farther Leg behind o' th' Whale ; Pray Heavn divert the fatal Omen, 460 For 'tis a Prodigy not common : And can no lefs than the TVo?'ld's End, Or Natures, Funerd portend. With that he fell again to pry. Thro' Perfpedlive more willfully, 465 When by Mifchance the fatal String, That kept the towriJig Fowl on wing. Breaking, down fell the Star: Well fhot. Quoth Whachwny who right wifely thought H' had levell'd at a Star, and hit it: 470 But Sidropbely more fubtil-witted, Cry'd out, What horrible and fearful Portent is this, to fee a Star fall ; It threatens Nature, and the Doom Will not be long before it come ! 475 When Stars do fall, 'tis plain enough. The Day of Judgmefifs not far off: 3^. 461, 462. And can no Je/s than the World* s End, — Or Nature's Funeral portend.] Spencer thus defcribes the Fears of the Vulgar, upon the Appearance of a blazing Star : Thus asjhejied, her Eyes Jhe hack^Mard threvj As fearing Ei/il that piirfu'd her fajl ; And her fair jcllcw Locks behind herfetUf ^ Loofely dfpers'd ivith Puff of e-v'ry blafi ; All as a blazing Star doth far (ut-cajl His hairy Beams, and faming Locks difpred'. At Sight 'whereof the People f and aghaft ; But the f age Wizard tells, as he has read, ^hat it importunes Death, and doleful Drerihead. (Fairy ^eeti, book 3. canto i. ft. 16. vol. 2. p. 371. Vide Wolfi Ledion. Memorab. par. poli. p. 950.) ;^. 475. When Stars do fall,] Sxpe enim ftellas vento impendente videbis 46 HUDIBRAS, As lately 'twas reveal'd to l^edgwkki And fome of us find out by Magkk. Then fince the Time we have to live 480 In this World's fliorten'd, let us ftrive To make our bell; Advantage of it. And pay our LoiTes with our Profit. This Feat fell out, not long before The Ktiight, upoA the forenam'd Scorej 485 In Quefl of Sidrophel advancing, Was now in ProfpecS of the Manjion: Whom he difcov'ring, tun'd his Glafs^ And found far off, 'twas Hudibras. Whachum (quoth he) look, yonder, fomd 490 To try, or ufe our Art are come: The one's the learned Knight y feek out. And pump 'em what they come about. Whachum advanc'd, with all SubmilT'nefs T' accoil 'em, but much more their Bus'nefs i Praecipites ccelo labi Virgil. Georg. I. 365, 356. And oft before ievipefuom Winds cirife Thejeeming Stars fall headlong from the Skies. Mr. Dryden; Non catlere in terram ftellas k fidera cernis. Litcret. lib. 2. p. 2cg. Vide irdfi Lecilon. Mentor c.b. fiibAnn, 765. par. l. p. zoo. Hoc tempore itella; de caelo delapfe funt : fir^nificantes Papam & Cleri- cos, ac Ecdefis optiniates de negotiis ca'lcRibus, quorunj cura Tola ibiis illis demandata eflet, defcifcere, &c tcrrenis mundi rebus fe in- Volvere. >*'. 477. As lately ''tnjuas rc'veaVd to Sedgwick.] William Sedg- tvjick, a whimfical Enthufiaft, fometimes a Prefl>yterian, fome- times an Independent ; and at other Tiir^es an Jnabapti/l : Some- times a Prophet, and pretended to foretell Things out of the Pulpit to the Deftruflion of ignorant People ; at other I imes pretendvid to Revelations, and upon Pretence of a Viiion that Loomfday was at PART II. CANTO III. 47 495 Me held a Stirrup while t\\Q Knight From Leathern Ba're-bones did alight j And taking from his Hand the Bridle, Approach'd the dark Squire to unriddle: He gave him firxl the Time o' th' Day, 500 And welcom'd him, as he might fay : [ther He afk'd him whence they came, and whi- Their Bus'nefs lay ? Quoth i^^^/^i?, hither. Did you not lofe? — ^^^^X^nRalpho, nay; Quoth Whachum^ Sir, I meant your Way! 505 'YoMx Knight — Quoth i^^^i^.^^, is a Lover ^ And Pains intolerable doth fufFer : For jL(?i;^r J- Hearts are not their own Hearts, Nor Lights, nor Lungs, and fo forth downwards. What Time ? — Quoth Ralpho, Sir, too long, ff I o Three Years it off and on has hung — Quoth he, I meant what Time o the Day 'tis ; Quoth Kalpho, between feven and eight 'tis. at Hand, he retired to the Koufe of S>ir Francis RuJJclm Ca?7t- bridgepire : And finding feveral Gentlemen at Bowls, called upon them to pi-epare for their Diliblution ; telling them, that he had lately received a Revelation, that Doomjday would be fome Day the Week following. Upon which they ever after called him Doom/day Sedgvjick, {Woodh Athencs Oxon. part 2. col. 335, 336. firll edit.) •j[. 49 1 . The one's the learned Knight ;] It appears from Lillfs Life, that he and the Knight were acquainted ; io that from hence, and the Knight's Figure, he might well know him at a Diihince : I need not obferve (for every Reader will readily do it) how naturally irhachum m2k.Qs a Difcovery of the Knight's Hufinefs from Ralpbo^ and how artfully he communicates it to Sidrophcl. Upon this Dif- covery is founded the Knight's Surprize, and his learned Debate with the C onjurer, which is gradually worked up to fuch a Warmth, as neceflarily involves the Knight in a fourth Engagement, where- by he happily gains" a fecond Vidory. (Mr. B.J 48 HUDIBRAS. Why then (quoth Whachum) my Cmsll^f'^ Tells me, the Dame has a hard Heart-, r 1 5 Or great Eft ate — Quoth Ralphs a Jointer, Which makes him have fo hot a Mind t' her^ Mean while the Knight was making Water^ Before he fell upon the Mattery Which having done, the Wizard {\:eps iil| C20 To give him fuitable Reception ; But kept his Bus'nefs at a Bay, Till WhacJown put him in the Way; Who having now, by Ralpho's Light, Expounded th' Errandof the Aw^/^/'i 525 And what he came to know^ drew near^ To whifper in the Confrere Ear, Which he prevented thus : What was't^ Quoth he, that I was faying laft. Before thefe Gentleme?i arriv'd? 530 Q^oihWhachufn, Venus you retriev'd, jj'. 550. ^/c//' Whachum, Venusjoa rr/r/V-z'V] Whachum h^v'm^ pumped Ralphy and learnt of him the Bufinefs they came about, tells it to his Mafter in afirological Cant; Mars and Fenus are the Lover, and his Miftrefs in Oppofition. bhe is not Firgo, therefore ^IVidovj. [Br. B.J •p. 5 3 J, 536. Has Saturn nothing to do in it ? — One tenth o/^s. Circle to a Minute. '\ The Planet Saturn is thirty Years (or there- about) going round the Zodiac ; three Years being the tenth of his Circle, the Conjurer told the Knight he knew his Errand. Saturni circuitus abfolvitur folammodo intra annos proxime triginta, Gaf. /endi AJironcmia, lib. 3. cap. 2. " The Time of his Revolution ••* (fays Dr. Harris, JJlronomical Dialogues, p. 13 1.) is about thir- *' ty Vears, or more exa£Uy fpeaking in 10759 I^^ysj 6 HourSj ■*' 36 Minutes." Then lojl is fullen Saturn'j ample Bounds, Who once in thirty Tears the World furrounds. (J. TaylorV^er^/, p. 132.) >-539> PI. XT rdlJT.v. ^ 8. V/. JV,roa/-X^ g ^..Mtfrnte^V. PART II. CANTO III. 49 In Oppofition with Mars, And no benigne friendly Stars T' allay the Effed. • Quoth Wizard, So ! In Virgo ? Ha ! quoth Whacbum, No ; ^'i^i^ Has Saturn nothing to do in it ? One tenth of 's Circle to a Minute, 'Tis well, quoth he. — Sir, you'll excufe This Rudenefs, I am forc'd to ufe. It is a Scheme and Face of Heaven, 540 As th' AfpeSls are difpos'd this EveUy I was contemplating upon. When you arriv'd; but now I've done. Quoth Hudibras, if I appear Unfeafonable in coming here 545 At fuch a Time, to interrupt Your Speculations, which I hop'd AffiiVance from, and come to ufe, 'Tis fit that I afk your Excufe. f, 539, 540. ItisaSchf'mea?idFaceofHea-oc)2, — As tlJ' AfpeSis ere difpos d this E-ven.'\ See this Piece of Grimace expofed, Scot's Dif co-very of Witchcraft ^ book ll. chap. 21. f. C4J, (;46. To interrvpt — Tour Speculations^ From the fucceedin^- Part of this Canto, 'tis plain that Sidrcphel did not gain the fame Credit with- Htydih-as, that another Fortune' Teller did with the Perfon who confulted him in a matrimonial Cafe. (See VEJiranges Fables, part 2. fib. 6.) " A Fellow (fays *' he) that had a Wambling towards Mntrimony, confulted a Man " of Art in Moor-Fields, whether he fhould marry or not ? T he " cunning Man put on his confidering Cap. and gave him this " fhort Anfwer : Pray have a Care ho'i'j you mar-'-y Huvd over *' Head (fays he) as People frequently do ; for you are a lolt Man *' if you go that Way to Work. : But if you can have the Heart ** to forbear your Spoufe s Company for three Days and Nights, f* well told, after you two are Man and Wife, I will be bound Vol. II. D " te so H U D I B R A S. By no Means, Sir, quoth Sidrophel, 550 The Stars your coming did foretel 5 I did expedt you here, and knew. Before you fpake, your Bufinefs too. Quoth Hudibras, make that appear. And I fhall credit whatfoe'er 555 You tell me after, on your Word, Howe'er unhkely, or abfurd. You are in Lovet Sir, with a Widoiv, Quoth he, that does not greatly heed youy *' to burn my Books if you don't find the Comfort of it. The ** Man took the Virgin to his wedded Wife, and kept his Di- ** fiance accordingly ; while the Woman in the mean Time took *' Pet, and parted Beds upon it, and fo the Wizard faved his «* Credit." Lefs fortunate in this Refpeft was Dr. William Ramfey, with \v\iovciJii . Toung was acquainted, [Set Sidrophel Fapnlans, '^. t,i ) *' Who publickly boafted of Slcill enough in Aftrology, to fore- *' know a Man's Fate, particularly whether he were born to be *' rich, fortunate in Marriage, ^c. and depended fo much upon *' it as to afTure himfelf of great Wealth, and happy Nuptials : *' Who yet died poor in a Gaol, after he had married iuch a *' Wife, as prevailed on him to write that Satyr, intitled, Con- ** j'^S^""'' Conjurgium." Some of the Saints of thofe Times, in Cafes of Matrimony, took a different Method, and pretended to feek the Lord, as ap- pears from the following Prayer of Mr. George S-xvathe, Minifler of Denham in Suffolk. (See his Prayers puUiJhed 1739> p. 15.) •' O my good Lord, l^c. I this Night defire thy Counfel in Behalf •' oi Roger Horjieede o^ Hengrea-ve : fhou. Lord, knoweft whether *' it be better for him to live a fingle Life, cr to marry the firll *' Woman that was propounded to him, with whom he has been *' thrice, who loves him well ; or to accept of the fecond Maid *' proffered him, which is farther off, whom he hath only feen *' once, iht hxiving carnal Friends , and more Beauty, and more *' pleafing Behaviour than the former, who hath godly Friends : *' Yet at this prefent I know neither of thefe, nor any of their «' Friends by Name or Face. Lord, I defire thy fpecial Council *' which I fhall advife him unto, or to live as he is. I know not *' of thefe three I hings which is beft for him to chufe : I pray «' thee PART II. CANTO III. 51 And for three Years has rid your Wit 560 And Paffion, without drawing Bit : And now your Bus'nefs is to know If you Ihall carry her or no. Quoth Hiidibras, you're in the right. But how the Devil you come by't, 565 I can't imagine , for the Stars, I'm fure, can tell no more than a Horfe ; Nor can their Afped:s (though you pore Your Eyes out on 'em) tell you more ** thee guide me in my Judgment, that fo I may in due Time *' dired him what Way to chufe, what to do. 1 hou, O my God, *' knowea what Way is beft, what Courfe will be moft for thy *' Glory, and for his Good. Lord, he defires to refign his Will *' to thy Will, he defires to go in that Way wherein thou wilt meet ** him, wherein thou wilt biefs him, wherein he may gain thee *' moft Glory in his i ife and Converfation. If thou vvilt continue ** to him the Gift of Chaftity, as thou haft for thirty-five Years, *' tlien perfuade his Heart that Way : Jf thou wilt have him accept *' of the firft Offer, then diredl him that Way: If thou vvilt have " him take the fecond ProiFer, then counfcl him that Way, or ihew " to me which of thefe Ways is beft, that I may direci him as *' from thy JJounfcl. Lord, let thy .'^and appear in the pitching " of his heart upon that Choice, which thou wouLft have him ** make ; let thy Providence appear in his choice. Hear my De- ** fires. Petitions, and Kequefts for him." f. 550. The Stars your coming did foretel.'\ " How to determine ** their Influence particular (fi.ys the Author of the Tarkijh Spy^ ** vol. 8. book 4. letter 10.) by Divination, by calculating Nati- " vitie5, erecting Horofcopes, and other Schemes of Ajtrclogy : ** To foretel l^hings to come, to avoid progno.Hcated Evils, and •' engrofs all happy Events ; to predict other Mens Fates, whilftr •' we are ignorant of our own, ^c. is a Thing which appears to *' me beyond the Power of human Reafon, and a Science built on " Sand.- ;^» 557* ^°^ ^'■^ ^^ Loi>ey Sir, nvith a Wido'w.'\ See Gip/eyy For- tune-Teller to bir Roger de Co-jerley, Speaator, N® 1 30. f. 565. 566. For the Stars — Vm fure can tell m more than a Hor/e.'l Paracelfus according to Mr. Webfier, Dif- D 2 playing 52 HUDIBRAS. Than th' Oracle of Sieve and Sheers % ^70 That turns as certain as the Spheres : But if the Devi's of your Counfel, Much may be done, my noble Donzel ; And 'tis on his Account I come. To know from you my fatal Doom. 57 S Quoth Sidrophel, if you fuppofe. Sir Knight y that I am one of thofe, I might fufped:, and take the Alarm^ Your Bus'nefs is but to inform ; flaying of fuppofed Witchcraft, chap. 17. p. 340.) was of a different Opinion. Praeterea (ideribus nota funt omnia, quae in natura ex ■ iftunt : unde (inquit) fapiens dominabitur Allris : is fapiens, qui virtutes illas ad fui obedientiam cogere poteft. Nay fome Aftrologers (fee GaJ/indius Vanity of Judiciary Afro-' logy^ p. 6.) fuppofed, " That in the Zodiac were twelve Princely *' Gods prefiding over the twelve Signs, there being befides thirty ** other Stars as privy Councillors to thofe Deities ; which did *' obferve and recount all Occurrences upon Earth, that the ceUjiial *' Senate might confult and decree accordingly." f. 569. Than th' Oracle of Sieve and Sheers?^ See the Manner of trying this foolifh Experiment in Wierus (De pr^Jiigiis Deemonmny Jib. 2. cap. 12. p< 196.) and vciScoty (Difcovery of Witchcraft ^ book J2. chap. 17. p. 262. book 16. chap. 5. p. 478.) y^ 572. • My fioMe Donzel 1 oj: Don. The Word ufed by Face to Surley, who (in Ben Johnfon's Akhjmifi, aft 4. fc, 3. and fc. 6.) adled the Part of a Spaniard. f, 578. But to inform.'] At that Time there was a fevere Inquilition againll Witches, Conjurers, iSc. (Mr. W.) as there was at the Beginning of the Reign of King James the FirJI. I find in Rymers Feeder a, vol. 16. p. 666. a fpecial Pardon from King James to Sitnon Read, for pradifing the Black- Art. f. 580, Tou have a ivrong So-iv by the Ear.] One of Sancho Pancha\ proverbial Expreffions, " He that thinks to grunt at me, ♦• has a wrong Sow by the Ear." (Doji !^i.\ote, vol. 2. chap. 20, p. 249.) PART II. CANTO III. 53 But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near, 580 You have a wrong Sow by the Ear; ■ For I afTure you, for my Part, I only deal by Ruks of Art ; Such as are lawful, and judge by Concluiions oi AJlrology : ^S^ But for the Devi/, know nothing by him. But only this, that I defy him. Quoth he. Whatever others deem ye, I underftand your Metonymy : f. 581, 582. For I aj/tireycu, for wy Part, — 1 07ily deal by Rules f)fArt7\ Gajfendus ohkxvz^, {(zQ Vanity of Judida''yJJiroIcgy,Tp. I 36.) " That Heminga, a Modern, having propofed thirty eminent Na- *' tivities, and reduced them to ftrift Examination, according to ** the beft Rules of Art : He declared, that the Experiments did " by no means agree with the Rules, fad Events bel'alHng fuch as " were born under the moft happy and promiling Pofitions of *' Heaven ; and good befalling fuch as the Heavens rrowned upon, ** and threatened all the Ruin and Miichief unto, that can be ima- ** gined : And therefore concluded, that j^ftrclcgsrs, when they " give Judgment of a Nativity, are generally the whole Heavens " wide of the Truth." Nay Cardan himfelf owned, (fee Gajfen" dus''s Vanity of Judiciary Aftrology, p. 159.) " That of forty Things, ** fcarce ten happened right."' 3^. 584. Conclufions of Jjlrology.'] Mr. Ward, Rhetoric-Profejfor of Grejham-College, (fee his Lives of the Prof fori, p. 126.) informs us, that the learned IVJr. Gataksr defiring Mr. Henry Briggs, the firft Geometry-Prof for of that College, to give him his Judgment con- cerning Judiciary Afrology? his Anfwer was, " That he conceived *' it to be a mere Sylrem of groundlefs L'onceits.' And Mr, , Oughtred calls him the Mirrour of the Age, for his e^fcellent Skill in Geometry. Tacitus of old has expofcd them, (fee Sir Henry Savile's Tranflation, vol. 3. b. i. p. 44 ) Kircher fpeaks contemptibly of them, ( Athatiafii Kircheri itiner. exfiatic. in Globurn Joiis, p. 213.) Non polTum non improbare improbam quorundam Aftrologoram audaciam & temeritatem, qui tam tuto & confidenter de fortuna, & eventibus, turn regnorum, tum nationum fecuturis vaticinantur, dum AUrologiam intkllibilibus veritatis regulis aflringerc fe pofTe putant. Wolf us (Lexicon. Memorab. par. i. p. 796.) has given a P 5 remarkable 54 HUDIBRAS, Your Words of fecond-hand Intention, ^90 When Things by wrongful Namesyoum&n^ The myftick Senfe of all your Terms j [tion ^ That are indeed but Magic Charms, To raife the Devil, and mean one Thing, And that is down- right Conjuring : remarkable Account of an Anrologer's Son at Milain^ who was hanged, and thereby had eluded all his Tathers Art. (See the Art tully expofed, Dijjertat. Fa-uorini Philojophi adiier/us eos, qui ChaUisi appeliatitu, . J. GeHii Nc^. .'ittic iib. 14. cap. i. Jo. Ttci Miranaula, lib. 6 tom. I. p. 397. Fra. FaUfii,]Jh. de Sacra PhiUfophia., cap. 31 Tu'hfi Spy, vol. 8. b. 4 chap. 10. Cajfen- diiss Vanity of judiciay /Jirclogy, painm. Preface to Dr. Long's u^ji ono?ny, p 5. ■^nd Dr. \, am-.s Toungs Sid. ophcl Vapulans, p 34. where tis fully expofed by many learned Men, who Iludied that Art.) if. 588. / wider Ji and your MctonyinyP^ Metcnymy is a Figure in T.hetotick, which iuiplies a changing or putting of one Name or 'J hing for another : As when the Laufe is put for the EfFeft, the Subjed for the Adjunft, or contrarily. "jr. 592, 593- That are indeed but magic C ha' ms, — 'To rai/e the Devil, ] Moftray fT-an^eh, vol 2. p. 334. 1 feems to difpute the Poflibility of raifmg the L evil ; and endeavours to confirm his Opinion by a remarkable Story oi Ba:onL , a Z)^«;_/^ Pri Toner of ^ ar, who was confined in one of the Prifons of itockhclm, for having been convicted of a Defign ot treating with the Devil, for a certain Sum of Money, which at that 1 ime he Itood in extieme Need of — .\nd to this End ; initead of Iuk:, he had v/ith his own Blood figned a Bond, by which he himfelf, and fome •. ompanions, of his (who for want of Money and Credit had figned it m the fame iV;anntr firm y and truly ii,ade their Souls over to the infer- nal Spirit after their Deaths, upon Condition, that he would pay them down that Sum : But neither he, nor any of the reft could •compafs their defired 1 nd, nofwithftanding all the Pains they took about it: Going byNighis under Gibbets, and in Bur) ing-Places to call upon him, and dcfnc him to truft them ; but neither Body nor Spirit (fays he) ever came to treat with them : At laft one of them finding the Devil would no: help him, determined to try what he could do for himfelf; and having robbed and murdered a Man, he was taken up, tried and executed, and in his Confcflion he owned the Iranfadlion and Intent. And in Baron L — r-'s Cham- bei: PART II. CANTO IIL 55 595 And in itfelf more warrantable. Than Cheats or Canting to a Rabble^ Or putting Tricks upon the Moon, Which by Confed'racy are done. Your ancient Conjurers were wont 600 To make her from her Sphere difmount, ber the Bond was found, but torn to Pieces, as void, and of none EfFea. ir. 599, 600. Your ancient Conjurers ivere nvont — To make her from her Sphere di/mount.'] This Power was afcribed to them by the Heathen Poets. Thus Virgil fpeaks, (Biicol. Eel. 8. 6g, 70.) Carmina vel coelo pofTunt diducere Lunam. Carminibus Circe focios mutavit Ulyffei. Pale Phoebe dravjn by Verfe, from Hea-ven defends^ And Circe changd ^^vith Charms UlyfTes' Friends. Mr, Dry den. And Canidia, the Witch in Horace^ boafts of her Power in this Refpeft. Mesque terra cedit infolentije. An qux movere cereas imagines (Ut ipfe nofti curiofus) & Polo Diripere Lunam . Horat. Canid. Epod. 17. 75, ^f. And the Witch in Owd pretended to the fame Power. Te quoque Luna traho, l^c. Metamorph. 7. 207, l^c* And thee Titaniay)-©//; thy Sphere I hail., Though Brafs refunding, thy Extre7nes a^oail. Mr. G. Sandys. This Opinion feems to be fneered by Propertitis, in the following Lines, (lib. i. Eleg. i. 19.) At vos deduftae quibus eft fallacia Luna;, Et labor magicis facra piare focis. En agedum Dominse mentem convertite noftrse, Et facite ilia meo palleat ore magis. Tunc ego crediderum vobis, & fidera & amnes PofTe Cyteinis ducere carminibus. Vide Tibull. de Faflnatrice, lib. i. eleg. 2. The Author of this Opinion, [zs Mr. Sandys oh^tTVts, Notes up- on the 7 '^1 Book of 0-vid's Meta?no'-ph. p. 144. edit. 1640.) was Aglcnice the Daughter of Hegemon, " Who beirg fkilful in AJlro- *' nomy, boafted to the iTi'^^^/Z^j:?/ Women, (foreknowing the i ime ** of the Eclipfe) that flie ihould perform it at fuch a Seafon, D 4 *' which 56 H U D I B R A S, And to their Incantations ftoop ; They fcorn'd to pore .thro' Telefcope, Or idly play at Bo-peep with her. To find out cloudy, or fair Weather, 605 Which ev'ry Almanack can tell Perhaps, as learnedly, and well As you yourfelf — Then, Friend, I doubt You go the farthefl Way about : Your modern Indian Magician 610 Makes but a Hole in th' Earth to pifs in, *' which happening accordingly, they gave Credit to her Decep- *' tion. Nor is it a Wonder, fays Fi'ves, that thofe learned " M^n namely, Pindant^ and Stejichorus) fhould believe, that the *' Moon was drav/n down from Heaven, fince a Sort of Men, as " we remember, believed an Afs :iad d-ank her up ; becaufe as •*' {he fhone in the River where he drank, a Cloud en the fudden ** overfnadowed her : For this the Afs was imprifoned, and, after *' a legal Trial, immediately ripped up, to let the Moon out of his *' Belly, that (he might fnine out as formerly. ' Columbus impofed upon tlie Jamaicans in the fame Manner, by foretelli ;g an Eclipfe to happen two Days after, which they took for a Miracle. (PiDcLij'c'Si Pilg.ims, vol. 5. p. to6,) if. 609, 610. 7'our mode 71 Indiclk Magician — Makes but a Hch in th* Earth to pifs in, &c.] J he Tranflator of Toquipuda, in- titlcd, The Spanijh Maunds-vi:>e, fol. 6?. gives us the following Ac- count; " Amongft other Things, which are written in the il/^/- •*' leus Malefcc-im you fnall f rd, that the Commiffioners having •' apprehended certain SorcereiTes, v.ilkd one of them to fhew what *' ihe could do ; alTuring her Life, on Condition, that from thence *' forward Ihe (hould no more cltend in the like : Whereupon, go- *' ing out into th'. Fields in the ^refence of the Ccmmiirioner;, *' and many others, fne made r. Pit in the Ground with her Hands, ** making Wate the ein % \< hich being done, ihe ftirred about the ** Unie with one of her Fingers, out of which by little and " little, after {he had made certain Charaaers, and mumbled a ** few Words, there role a Vapour, which afcending unward ** like a Smoke, began to thicken of itfelf in the n:id:fco^ery of U itcu- craft, chap. 13. p- to.) >^ 617, 618. Seme by the Kcfe n.>:ith Fumes trafan em, Js Dunftaa dLi the De-uil s Grannum.'] St. Dunfian was made Arch- biihoD of Canterbury, Anno 961 . His Skill in the liberal Arts and Sciences (Qualiiicaticns much above the Gt':i:is cf the Age he lived in) gained him firft the Name of a Conjurer, and then of a Saint. He is revered as fuch by the Rofnanijis, v, ho keep an Hcly- Dav, in Honour of him, vearly on the 19' of A%. i:\\eMonk,p Writers have filled his Life with R mamick Stories, and among the reft with thus mentioned by our Poet : He was (fay they) once tempted to Lewdnefs by the De^;!, under the Shape of a fine Lady ; but inilead of yielding to her Temptations, he took the Dtvil by the Nofe with a Pair of red-hot longs. (See EngUj/j Martyro'.ogy, hy :i Catholtck PneJ}, 1608. p. 244. IVheatkfs Ra- tional lUujlrat. fol. edit. p. 66. Wir.Jlan>ey% England s Wortmes, P ^5 ) ^, , V 61Q Others ivith Charaders and Words, &c.] See C'^auctr % third Book of Fame, works 1602. fol. 267. Wcbfta'% Difplaymg of /uppcs'dUitchaaft^ ^h7^^. 17^ -2. I2\,'dc, 58 HUD IBRAS. And fome with Symbols y Signs, and Tricks, Engrav'd in Planetary Nicks, With their own Influences will fetch 'em Down from their Orbs, arreft, and catch 'em; 625 Make 'em depofe and anfwer to All ^ejiionsy e'er they let them go. jr. 627, 628. Bumbaftus kepfa De-vil's Bird — Shut in the Pum- tnel of his Snvord ] Naudteus (in his Hijiory of Magic, tranflated hy Da-jies, chap. 14. p. 185.) obierves of this familiar Spirit, *' That tho' the Alchemifts maintain, that it was the Secret of the *' Philofopher s Stone ; that yet it were more rational to believe *' that if there was any thing in it, it was certainly two or three " Dofes of his Laudanum, v\ hich he never went without, becaufe *' he did ftrange things with it, and ufed it as a Medicine to cure *' almoft all Difeafes.' Paracelfus had fuch an Opinion of his own Chemical Nofrums, that he gloried he could make Men immortal by the Philcfophers Stone, potable Gold, and other Arcana; and yet he hi ir. felt" died at the Age of forty-fcven. [Viie. Arcana Paracelji Op. VanHdmont, p. 479. Svciho. Br o^vne'sFiilgar Errors, book 3. chap. 12. Woljii LeBion, Memorab, par. 2 p. 284, 285.) Paracelfus was called Aurclius, Philippus. Pafacelfus, Theophra- ftus, Bomhajhis de Hobenheim. He was born at the Village ot Ein- fdlcn, two German Miles diftant from the Helvetic Tigurum, now called Zurich. It is faid, that for three Years he was a Soiaj- gelder. His Father, William Hohenheim (a bale Child of a RIafter of the Teutonic Order) not only left him a CoUeftion of rare and valuable Books, but committed him firit to the Care of Trithemius Abbot of Spanheim, and afterwards to Sigifmund Fug- ger of Zurich, famous for his Chemical Arcana. According to his own Account, he vifited all the Univerfities of Europe ; and at twenty Years of Age had fearched into the Mines of Germany ^nA Rujjia, 'till at l,aft he was taken Prifoner by the Tartars, and by them fent to Conftantinople. In his Travels he obtained a Colle£lion of the moil fovereign Remedies for all Dillempers, from Dodtors of Phyfic, Barbers, old Women, Conjurers, and Chemiils ; and was afterwards employed as a Dotlor and Surgeon in Armies, Camps, and Sieges. He fignaliied himfelf at firll by a ralli iaconfideratc Uie of Mercury and Opium in the Cure of the Leprofy, Pox, Ulcers, and Dropfies. The Efficacy of Mercury was not at that Time well underftood ; and according to the then Opinion, Opium being cold in the fourth Degree, the Ufe of PART II. CANTO III. 59 Biimhajliis kept a Deijil\ Bird Shut in the Pummel of his Sword, That taught him all the cunning Pranks, €30 Of pafl and future Mountebanks, Kelly did all his Feats upon The Devil's Looking^GlaJ's, a St07ie ; of it, through Fear, was very much negleiled ; infomuch that by his Radinels and Boldnefs in the Ul'e ot thefe, he performed many Cures, which the regular Fbyficians could not do ; Amongfl; which that on Frobenius of Bajll was the moft remarkable ; for through his Intereft he was invited by the IVIr. gill rates of that Place to read pub- lic Leflures in Phyfic and Philolophy : V^ here he foon ordered the Works oi Galen and Juicema to be burnt ; dec!?,ring to his Audi- tors at the fame I ime, that if God would not affill him, he would advife and confult with the Devil. (Vide Z-u.inger's. Theatrum, p. 227. Boerhaaue's Chemijiry, vol. 6. p. 22. Collier s Di^ionary.) (Mr. M.) Probably from his affetled Language, fwelling and bluf- tering Nonfenfe, came the Word Bonibaji. it. 63 1, 632. Kelly did all his Feats upon — The DenjiVs Looking- glafs, a Stone,^ This Kelly was Chief Seer (or, as Lilly calls him. Speculator X.0 Doctor Dee, Life, p. 99.) was bon.'at ^orr^fr, and bred an Apothecary, and was a good Proficient in Chemijlry^ and pretended to have the Grafid Elixir (or Philoj'ophers ttone) which Lilly in his Life (p. loi.) tells us he made, or at leaft received ready made from a Frier in Germunyy on the Confines of the Emperor s Dominions. He pretended to fee Apparitions in a Chryital, or Berryl Looking-Glafs (or a round Stone like a Chryftal.) ^/^/cc Palatine ci Poland, Pucel a learned FloreniinCy and Prince Rofemberg of Ger?nany, the Emperor's Viceroy in Bo- hemia, were long of the Society with him, and Dr. Dee, and of- ten prefent at their Apparitions ; as was once the King of Poland himfelf : But Li>ly o' feives, that he was fo wicked that the Angels would not appear to him willingly, nor be obedient to him (Life, p. lOI.) Weaver (Funeral Monuments) allows him to have been a Chemill, that he loft his Ears at Lancafier, and raifcd a dead Body in that Country by ISeciomancy : That Queen Elizabeth fent for him out of Germany ; bat climbing over a Wall at Prague, where it is reported he was imprUbned for a Chemical Cheat put on the Emperor, he broke his Legs, and bruifed himfelf fo that ^e died foon after. He offered to raife up Devils before jilajco, 'J use I c^, 1581. His Spirits told him, 1584, he fhould die a vio- do H U D I B RA S, Where playing with him zt Bo-Peep, He folv'd all Problems ne'er fo deep. 635 Agrippa kept a Stygia?i Pug, V th' Garb and Habit of a Dog, That was his 'Tutor, and the Cz^r Read to th' occult Philojopher, viorent Death. Kelly, as T remember, is called Sir Z^tj^^^ by Mr. JJh/aole ; £?«. Whether Queen Elizabeth knighted him for fecret ^■'erviees ? i^Mr. S. W.) See more of him, Relation of --vjhat pajfed bei'ween Dr. Dee and feme "spirits, with a Preface by Meric Ca/aubon, 1659. folio, pajjim. Sir Fra. Baconh Apophthegms, numb. 135. AJhmoU'i Theatnun Chemicum Britannicum, prope finem, U^et'er's Funeral MoNiimenis, p. 45, 46. Be». Johifuns Alchyrniji, a£l 4. fc. I. ■jr. 632. 'The Devil's Looldjig-glafs ^ Dr. Dee obferves {kt Appe»' dix Chronic, 'fohann. Glajlon. p. <;i6.) That he fnewed his famous Glafs, and the Properties of it, to Queen Elizabeth. . This Kind of Juggling is mentioned by Femeliui an eminent Phyfician, (lib. i. cap. 11. De abditis rerumcaufts, p. in. edit. Geneva, 1 647.) Vidi quendam, vi verborum fpcclra varia in fpe- culam derivare, qu?e illic quaecunque imperaret, mox aut fcriptis, aut veris imaginibus ita diiucide exprimerent, ut prompte cc facile ab affidentibus omnia internolccrc^ntur. /^udiebantur quidem ver- ba facra, fed obfcccnis nominibus iburce contaminata : Cujufmodi funt Elementorum p.oteilates ; horrenda quredam & inaudita prin- cipum nom.ina, qui Oricntis, Occidentis, Aujlri, Aquiloni/que regie - nibus imperant. (Vide Wclfii Leclwn. Memorah. par. poll. p. 420. De Johanne Teutonico. See Lilly's life, p 50, Scois Difco'utry of Witchcraft, book 1 5. chap. 11, 12. p. 411. Webjlirs Difplaying of Suppojed Witchcraft, p. 310. f. 635. A Stygian Pu^,'] Vide Patdi Jovii Elog. DoSior. Firor, p. 187. Carm. (ib.) Baptijle Pajfe-uini. Latomi. Hunc tumulum baud charites fervant, Sed Erynnies Atras ; Non Mufse, at fparfis anguibus Eumenides : Colligit Jh'JIo Cineies, mifcetque aconito, Grataque dat Stygio Liba voranda Cani. Qui quod erat vivum comitatus, atrocitcr Orci, Nunc quoque per cundlas, raptat agitque vias : Infultatque adeo, & furias quia noverat omneis, S^lutat, injungit nomine quamque iiio. PART II. CANTO III. 6% And taught him fubt'ly to maintain 640 All other Sciences are vain. To this, quoth Sidrophelloy Sir, Agrippa was no Conjurer, Nor Paracelfusy no nor Bchmen 5 Nor was the Dog a Cacodcemon, .0 mifcias artels, qua; folse eacommoda pnTflant, Accedat Stygias notus ut hofpes aquas. _ •jr. 639, 640. jind taught him fubt'ly to ftiaintain-^ All other Sciences are 'vainS\ Nothing can be more pleafant than this turn given to Agrippa^ filly iook, De Vanitate i>cicntiarum. (Mr. JV.) ir. 644. Nor rwas the Dog a Cacodamon,'\ Paulas Jo^ius (Elog. dodcr. 'viror. edit. Baf,l. 1 577. p. 187.) gives in to the Opinion of AgrippcC?, being a Conjurer, and his Dog a Cacodtemon, £x- ceffit e vita nondum fenex apud Lugdufium, ignobili & tenebrofo in Di-~jei-forio ; multis eum tanquam Necromantic fufpicione infa- mem, execrantibus ; quod Caccdirmancm nigri ca?:is Ipecie circum- duceret ; ita ut quum propinqua morte ad pcenitentiam urgeretur, cani collare lorcum magicis per clavorum emblemata infcriptum no- tis exolverit ; in lisc fuprema verba irate prorumpens : Abi perdita hefiia, qua; me totum perdidljii : Nee ufquam familiaris iile canis, ac aiTiduus itinerum omnium comes, & turn morientis domini de- fertor, poftea confpeftus eft, quum pra^cipiti fuga; faitu in Ararim fe immerfiile, nee enatalle ab his, qui id vidifTe aflerebant, exiiH- metur. Wicrus, who was Agrippa's Pupil and Domeftic, dears him from this heavy Lharge. He owns that he had a Dog and a Bitch, named Mc7ijieur and Mada/noi/dk, which were great Favourites ; that the Dog lay conitantly under his Bed, and was fed at his Ta- ble : And as he knew moft Things that were tranfadled in foreign Nations, the imprudent Vulgar afcribed this to his Dog, taking him to be a Dnon. But he obferves, that in Truth he correfpond- ed with learned Men in all Nations, and daily received his Intelli- gence from them. (De pr^Jiig. Dccmcn. lib. 2. cap. 5. p. 164. See Hijlory of Magic, chap. 15. p. 200.) See G/)r^A Account of Simon Magus' s black Dog, Hev-Ti'ood's Hierarchy of Angels, lib. 7. p. 476. and of two Dogs at Salem, accounted Cacod.-cjnons, or feme- thing as bad, for which they were put to death. Dr. Hutchirfons Hiftorical Effoy of Witchcraft, p. %z. and lVierm\ Definition of a Cacodamon, lib. I. cap. 21. 3 :^- 655. 62 HUD IB RAS, 645 But a true Dog that would fhew Tricks For th' E??2peror, and leap o*er Sticks; Would/efc/? and carry, was more civil Than other Dogs, but yet no Devil -, And whatfo'er he's faid to do, 650 He went the felf-fame Way we go. As for t\iQ Rofy-Crofs Philofopbers, Whom you will have to be but Sorcerers^ What they pretend to, is no more Than T^rifjnegijlus did before, 6^^ Pythagoras, did Zoroajier, And Apollonius their Mafter : To whom they do confefs they owe y. 655. t)}d ZoroaJIer.,'] The King of the BaSlrians of thaC Name, who was flain by Nim/s, or Semiramis, has been commonly reputed the firft Inventor of Me^gic. But Dr. Ho-wel (fee Injiitution of General Hi/lory, part I. book i. chap. 2. p. 12.) is of Opi- nion, that Zorcaftres the Magician lived many Years after the King of the Batiriavs. Fabriciiis thinks it a difficult Matter to adjull the Time in which he lived ; there being fevcral of that Name. Bihlioth. Grac. torn. i. lib. i. cap. 36. p. 243. Vide Ammiani Marcellini Renem Gejlar. lib. 23. p. 374. Menagii Obfer-uat. in Diogenem Laertiiim, lib. i. edit. Pari/. 1 68 1. Jo. Pici Mirandul. in Ajirclog. Sir Walter Ralegh's Hijl. of the World, edit. 161 4. p. 17©. "Dv^ Heynvood^s Hierarchy of Angels, p. 469. Yit^n Prideaux's Co7inecl. i^c. parti, b. 4. p. 167. f lio edit. Moyle's Works, vol. 2. p. 36, &c. Hearne^ SjJlemofUniverfal Hifoiy, vol. i. p. 398. Turkijh Spy, vol. 4. book 4. chap. 9. 'Dr.Hiachinfon^sHif toricalEffay, p. 15. f. 656. And Apollonius their Mnfer ;] Apolhnius Tyan'Tus\ Life was written by Philofiratus and Damis. (Vide ^tephani Thef. Lingua I.atinee. Lti.vis'i Hiftory of the Parthian Empire, p. 237, Uc.) He was a great Mii?-/V/^'/; and fome Heathens, in fpite to Chrifianity, affirm, that his Miracles were as great as thofe of Chriji and his ApoiHes. (See a remarkable Account of him, Fleu- r;'s Ecchf. Hifi. vol. 2. p. 70, 71, lOl, ill, 148, 154, 155. Wier. de pra-Jiig. Daemon, lib. 2. cap. 3. 11. J)x. Mertc Cafau- PART II. CANTO III. 62 All that they do, and all they know. Quoth Hiidibras, Alas ! what is't t' us, 660 Whether 'twas laid by Trifmcgiftiis, If it be Nonfeiifeyfalfey or ??iyjiick. Or not intelligible J or fophijlick ? 'Tis not A7itiqiiity, nor Author, [Daughter ; That makes Truth Truth, altho' Times 66^ 'Twas he that put her in the Pit, Before he puU'd her out of it : And as he eats his So?2s, jufc fo He feeds upon his Daughters too : Nor does it follow, 'caufe a Herauld 670 Can make a Gentleman, fcarceaYearold, hon% Preface to Tiv.Dech Book of Spirits.) He lived in the Days oi Domi:ian and ^c/n an. (Vide Suid^ Lex. Fabricii Bihliothu. Grac. lib. 4. cap. 24. ^9. See a long Lill oi Magicians, lurkijh Spy, vol. 7. book 3. Letter 5.) f, 665, 666. ^'Tn.vas he that put her in tl?e Pit, — Before he pu IP d her out of it;} This Satyr is fine and juft. Chanfhes hid, that Truth was hid in a Pit. Yes (fays our Author) but you Greek Phi- lofophers were they who firft put her there, and then claimed to yourfelves ib much IVIerit in drawing her out again. The firli: Greek Philofophers extremely obfcured Truth by their endlefs Speculations ; and it v/as the p etendcd Bufinefs of their SucceHbrs to clear up Matters. This does honour to our Author s Knowledge of Anti- quity. (Mr. W.) f. 667, 66s. And as he eats his Sons, Jr^ffo — He feeds upon his Daughters too.] Chronus is faid, by the Mythologijis, to have de- voured his ^ons. Truth is faid to be the Daughter of Time ; which Time is called by the Greeks Chronus, and fo he may be faid to eat his Daughters. (Mr. W.J ylr. 669, 670, 671, 672. Nor does it follow, ''caufe a Herauld — Can make a Gentleman, farce a 7 ear old, — ^lo be dcJcenJed of a Race, Of ancient Kings, in a fmall Space ;] A 5 near upon the mock Gentry of thole Times, who, as they increafed in Riches, thought proper to lay claim to Pedigrees to which they 64 II U D I B R A S. To be defcended of a Race, Of ancient Kings, in a fmall Space ; That we fhould all Opinions hold Authentic^ that we can make old. 675 Quoth Sidrophel, it is no Part Of Prudence, to cry down an Art ; And what it may perform, deny, Becaufe you underftand not why. (As Averrhois play'd but a mean Trick, 680 To damn our whole Art for Eccentric) they had no Right. Cornelius Holland, a Servant of the Vanes^ " got fo much Wealth, as to make him faucy enough to VxxtWil- ** Uam Lilly, and other Pamphleteers, to derive his Pedigree from " John Hclla;'.d Duke oi Exeter, although it be known he was ori- *' ginally a Link-boy.'' — (Walker s Hijhrj of Independency, part 2. p. 26, 27.) Such Gentry were T/^cff/^j Pury the elder ; fir.l a Weaver in Glo- tcfier, then an ignorant Solicitor. (Hiftory of Independency, part i . p. 167.) yc/j« ^/«fXy?w a poor Shopkeeper of J\"£'zcY-«/?/f, (id. ibid. p. 169.) John Birch, formerly a Carrier, afterwards Colonel, (ibid. p. 171.) Richard Sal'way, Co\oxit\, formerly a Grocer's Alan. (id. ibid.) Thomas Rainjlorough a Skipper of Lynn, Colonel and Vice- Admiral of Etigland. (id. ib.) Colonel Thomas Scot, a Brewer's Clerk, (ibid. p. 173.) Colonel Philip Skifpcn, originally a Wag- goner to Sir Fra. Fere ; (fee an Account of his Rife, Hi/lory of In- dependency, part I . p. 1 1 6, 1 1 7.) Colonel 'John Jones, a Serving Man. XBaies^i Li^es of the Regicides, p. 22.) Coloi\e\ Barkjlead, a piti- ful I himbleand Bodkin Goldfmith. (Hijiory of Independency , part 2. p. 155.) Colonel P/vV^, a Foundling and Drayman. (Hifcry of Jndepe'idency, part 2. p. 252.) Co onel Hcvjfon, a one eyed Cob- ler; and Colonel Warr/yo/?, a Butcher. Thefe, and hundreds more, affeded to be thought Gentlemen, and lorded it over Perfons of th^ firil Rank and Quality. Do you not hionv, that for a little Cain, heralds can foifi a Name into the Line. (Dr^dcns Hind and Panther.) This Praflice of the Heralds is bantered by Sir Richard Steele^ (in his mock Funeral, or Grief ^Jamode) where he introduces (he 1 PART IL CANTO III. 65 For who knows all that Knowledge contains - Men dwell not on the To/)s of Mount cinSt But on their Sides, or Rifing's Teat j So 'tis with Knowledge's vaft Height. 685 Do not the Hijiyies of all ylges Relate miraculous Prefages Of flrange Turns, in the World's Affairs Forefeen b' Aftrologers^ Soothfayers, Chaldeans, learn 'd Gcnethliacks, 690 And fome that have writ Almanacks f the Servant of Bahh the Undertaker, expreffing himfelf in the following Manner : " Sir, I had C3me fooner, but I went to the HeralJs for a " Coat for Alderman Gather greafe, that died lail: Nigh^ He *' has proniiicd to invent one a'^ainll ro-mon-ow. Sable. " Ah ; Pox take fome of our Cits ; their iirft Thing af- ** ter their Deaih, is to take Care of their Eirth. Fox, let him ** bear a pair of Stockings ; for he's the firft of his f airily that " ever v/ore one.' (See an Account of the 5//f/7v«», Don ^dxot, vol. i. book r. chap. 8. p. 71. and of fuch Gentry. Beaumcnt and Fletcher s Play, intitled, Nice Falour, or Pajjionate lyladman, V/crks, part z. p. 501.) ir, 679, 680. As Averrhoes pla)/'d but a mean Trick, — To damn our njohole Art for Eccenfrick,^ A-verrhoes vjas an Arabian Phyjlcian, furnamed Cof/unentaior, v.ho lived at Cordova ia Spain, in the Year I140. {\'l6e Naucleri Chronograph, vol. 2. p. 85. Collier's DiSiionary.) A-verrloes celeber Phiiofophus, d'C. ubique aftrono- xniam lacerat, damnat, infc61atur. — Aftroiogorum opinioncni, de cceleftibus irnaginibu?, quibus fubefie terrena figure fimilis ani- malia putant, fabulofam oicic, qua tamen fublata, ruit maxima pars ai'.rologics fuperftitiouis : alibi quidem (ait) contraria phi- lofophiae, alibi fere oniaia falfa dogmata altrologorum : turn ar- tem in univerfum vanam & iiinrmam. Jc. Fici Mirandulee in Ajlrclog. lib. I. torn. i. p. 282. ^'"ide etiiam Jo Era. Fici Mi- randuleE De rerum preenoLione, lib. 5. cap. 6. torn. 2. op. p. 359. f. 689. Chaldeans, learn d Genet hliack!,'\ Gajj'endus obferves of the Chaldeans (Vanhy of Judiciary Ajhclogy, chap. 15. p. 9'. edit. London, 1659. ^^°^ Sextus £nipiricus,J •" 1 hat when they Vol, II. E " v/ere 66 HUDIBRAS. ||| The Media?! Emp'ror dreamt his Daughter 1 Had pift all JJIa under Water, ^^ And that a Fhie^ fprung from her Hanches, O'erfpread his Empire with it's Branches : 695 And did not Sootbj'ayers expound it,' As after by th' Event he found it ? When Cafar in the Senate fell. Did not the Suneclips'd foretell. And, in Refentment of his Slaughter, 700 Look'd pale for almoft a Year after ? •* were to obferve the Time of an Infant's Nativity, one Chaldean *' fat watching on the Top of an Hill, or other eminent Place *' not far from the groaning Chamber, and attended to the Stars ; " and another remiiined below with the Woman in Travail, to " give the Sign, by ringing a Kettle, or Pan, at the Inftant of '* her Delivery ; which the other taking, obferved the Sign of " the Zcdiack, then rifmg about the Horizcn, and accordingly they *' gave Judgment of the Infant's Fortune; and this if the Birth " happened in the Night : But if in the Day, he that fat upon " the high Place, obferved only the Motion of the Sun." See Gaffendusi Remark upon it ; and his firft and fecond chapters, and the fourteenth, intitled, T^he Genethliacal Part of AJirology examined aud exploded. Sexti Empirici ad-verj. Mafhemaficos, lib. 5. p. 1 10. Jureliajia 1621. Mr Whijions Account of the Rife and Progrefs of Mathematics, prefixed to his Euclid, 1727, p. 5. f. 6gi. The Median Emptor drearnt his Daughter, &c.] * Aftyagesy King of Media, had this Dream of his Daughter Mundane, and the Interpretation from the Magi ; wherefore he married her to a Perjian of a mean Quality, by whom fhe had Cfrus, who con- quered all Afa, and tranflated the Empire from the Medes to the Perf.ans. Herodot. Clio. lib. 1. p. 50. edit. Hen. Stephani. i/. 697. JVhen Civfar in the Senate fell, &c.] * Fiunt aliquan- do prodigiofi & longiores folis defeftus, quales occifo Carfare Di- Slatore, & Antoniano hello totius anni paJlore continue. (Plinii Nat. Uijl. lib. 2. cap. 30.) The Prodigies and Apparitions preceding his Death, are men- tioned by feveral Writers. By Virgil, in his firil Georgic : Ear/h, Air, and Seas nvith Prodigies 'v:cre fignd. And Birds cbfcene, and ho-juling Dogs dinjirid • 3 BlocJ PART 11. CANTO III. 67 Aiigujius having b' Overfight Put on his left Shoe 'fore his right. Had hke to have been flain that Day, By Soldiers mutin'ing for Pay. 705 Are there not Myriads of this Sort, Which Stories of all Times report ? Is it not ominous in all Countries, When Crcivs and Raijens croak upon Trees ? The Roman Senate, when within 710 The City Walls an Givl was feen, Blood fpraag from Wells, Wolves hoxtjPd in Toxvns hy Kight, And boaing Vidims did the Priejis affright . Mr. Dryiien. Vide Horatii Carm. lib. I, 2. ad Augujlurt:, cum not. Delphlvi. Livii HijL lib. Il6. cap. 44, 4:;. Plutarch''s Life of Julius Ctrfary p. 435, 436, 437. Chronic. Chroniccr. lib. 2. p. 150. Shakef- gear's Jidrus Co-far, vol. 6. p. 137. Dr. Middhton's Lfe of Ci- cero, vol. 2. Gaffcndiis obferves (Vanity cf Judicia'-y Aftrology p. 136.) " That the Chaldeam predicted of' Ctrfar, Crnfflis, and •' Pompcy, that each of them fhould not die but in full old Age, *' bat in their Houfes, but in Peace and undiftineuifhed Honour ; ** and yet their Fates were violent, immature, and tragical." Kircher pretends to account for the Paienefs of the Sun in the following Manner (Itin. Exftatic. in Glohum Solis, p. 162.) Hoc unicum tibi periliafam habeas, tanti palloris, ac diminuti lumi- nis in fole caufas alias non fuifie, niil uevas hujus globi tempefta- tcs, quibus, eo tempore cataraflis folaribus circumquaque reciiiiis, tanta fumorum, vaporumque copia & multitudo exorta fuit, ut om- nera pxne lucem in totius folis facicm ind nfta eclipfi mortalibus eriperet : Pallor vero contigit ob raritatem vaporum ; per quos fol non fecus ac per tenuem nubem tranflucens, abduda nonnihil luce palliditatem neceilario incurrit, quaai mox ac ex uerit.ierenitas fo- lis fequitur. ir. 701. Augujius hauifrg, &c.] * Divus Augullus l^evum fibi prodidit calceum pra^poilcre indutum, quo die feditione roilitum prope affliftus eft. (Plin lib. 2. \i6.e Sueton. lib. z. f. 29.) f. 709. The Roman Scmte, vfff.] * Romani L. CrafTo & C. Ma- rio CofT. Bubone vifo orbem luftrabant. See a remarkable Account of an Oiijl that diHurb d Pope John XXIV, at a Council held at Rome. Fafcicul. Rcr. Expctaidar, l^ Fugiendar, p, 402. Brci'.nes edit. E 2 .^ 719, 68 H U D I B R A S, Did caufe their Clergy^ with LuJirationSy. (Our Synod Q2\h Humiliatiojis) The round-fac'd Prodigy t'avert From doing Town or Country Hurt : 715 And if an Gwl have fo much Pow'r, Why (hould not Planets have much more ? That in a Region far above Inferior Fowls of the Air move, And fliould fee further, and foreknow 720 More than their Augury below ? Though that once ferv'd the Polity Of mighty States to govern by -, ir. 719, 720, 72:, 722 Andfordno-LK — More than their Augury heUnv ? — Though that cnce ftr-vd the. Polity — Of mighty States to govern by.~\ The Greciavs and Romans were foperltitioufly govern'd by Auguries (See his Grace of Canterbury^ Antiquities of Greece, as to the former ; and Dr Kinntt\ Roman Antiquiiiesy and Dr. Mtddlcto/^s Life o/Xi.ero, 4'''' edit, vol 2. p 552, i^c. as to the latter ) 3^ 727, 728 Hcve tve vet lately, in the Moon, — Found a AV-w World, to th' Old uKkno'-uon ?'\ '* The Fame oi Galileos Obfervati- " ons excited many others to repeat them, and to make Maps ** of the Moon's Spots : Amon<; tlie reft, Lavgremi<:, the King of " Spain i Cofmographer, and Hm^elius, ConfuT Oi D ant zick, were " the moft diligent to fit their Maps for AjironomicalJJks : It *' was neceiTaiy to give Names to the molt remarlcable Spots and " Heg:ons La/.grenius cali'd them by the Names of the moft ** noted Mathttfuiticians, PbiloJophe'S, and Patrons oi Learning : " But Hevelius pretending great Difficulty in a juft Diftributiort " of the l.ai.d, in proportion to the Merits of the Learned, abo- *' lifhed their received Grants and Titles, and call d them by the *' geographical Names of Places en Earth, without the leaft Re- " femblancc in tneir Sliapes and Situations : '1 his Vanity of his " has embarrafT'd the Lunar Region with a double Nomenclature.'* (See Dr. Smitl/s Compleat Syjicm ofOpticks, vol. 2 book 4. chap.. 2- p. 426 Introduil, ad 'veram Ph\fca?n, a Joanne Keyl, M D. left. 10. p 118 edit 1721. i.e^'Dr. Hockh Micrograph, obferv. 60. p. 242, ^c.J Lucidae illx lunaris giobi plaga;, nihil aliucl fuut PART II. CANTO III. 69 And this is what we take in Hand By pow'rful Art to underftand ; 725 Which, how we have perform'd, all Ages Can fpeak th' Rvents of our Prefages. Have we not lately, in the Moon, Found a New Worlds to th' 0/^ unknown? Difcover'd Sea and hand, Columbus 730 And Magellait cou'd never compafs ? Made Mountains with our Tubes appear. And Cattle grazing on 'em there ? Quoth Hudibras, you lie fo ope, That I, v^rithout a Telefcope, funt quam terreilrium portionum eminentiores regloncs : Fufcae, aut maria aut lacus exhibent : nigr^ vero aut umbras montium, aut Luci inaccefias vallium profunditates, cavitatefque indicant : quod vel inde apparet, quod fol quanto fupra horizontem luna- rem juxta phafes afcenderit akius, tanto oblcuiiufculas hujurmo- di plagas magis inagifque illullratas videas donee in meridie, qui fit tempore oppofitionis foils & lun^e ; videlicet in pleniiunio pror- fus evanefcant. Athanafii Kirchtri Iter Extaticum in Lunatn, 1656. p. 80. Ben 'jchrifon fays, in banter of this Opinion, (fee Works, 1640. vol. I. p. 41.) " Certain and fure News ; News from the *• new World difcover'd in the Moon ; df a new World, and " new Creatures in that World ; in the Orb of the Mooj, which *' is now found to be an Earth inhabited f. ith navigable Seas and *' Rivers ; Variety of Nat'ons, Polities and Laws : with Havens *' cut, Caftles, Port Tov/ns ; inland Cities, Boroughs, Ham- " lets, Fairs and Markets ; Hundre :s^ and W'apentakes ; Fo- " refts, Parks, Coney Ground?, Meadows, Pafture, what not V (See the Cure of Melancholy by Dcmocritus Junior, concerning the Planets being inhabited, p. 254.) if. 729, 730. Difco'vei'd Sea and Land, Columbus — Andlslz' gellan cou^d ne-jer co?!ipafs,'\ (See an Account of Columbus and Magellan. Colliers Diiiionary. Lediard^s Naval Hijtory, vol. I. p. 76. g6. Chronic. Jo. Glajlonienf. a Tho. Ucarne, p. 552. Lin- J'ckotens Voyages, part 2. p. 264, Purcha/e's Pilgrims, part l. book 2. chap. i. fe£l 4. vol. 5. book 8. Churchill's Fojages^ vol z p 499. TurhiJJ} Spy, vol. 5. book 3. letter 9.) E 3 it. 737. 70 HUDIBRAS. 735 Can find your Tricks out, and defcry Where you tell Truth, and where you Lie : For Anaxagoras long agon. Saw H/7/j, as well as you, i' th' Moon : And held the Sun was but a Piece 740 Of Red-hot Irn, as big as Greece j Believ'd the Heav'ns were made of StonCy Becaufe the Sun had voided one ; And, rather than he would recant Th' Opinion^ fufFer'd Banifhment. 745 But what, alas ! is it to us. Whether i' the' Moon Men thus or thus Do eat their Pcrridge, cut their Corns, Or whether they have Tails or Horns ? What Trade from thence can you advance, 750 But what we nearer have from France f What can our Travellers bring Home, That is not to be learnt at Rome ^ ;^. 737. Fcr Anaxagoras long agou.l See Dr. Wilkins's Difcoz't- ry of a uenM World of the Moon. Prop. 9. p. 95- 4th edit. f. 739, 740 And held the Sun -^vas but a Piece — Of Red-hot Irn, as big as Greece] See various Opinions concerning the Big- nefs of the Sun, enumerated by the Commentator upon Crcc h"s Lucretius, book 5. p. 489. edit. 1714. Tyr. Derharn's Jjho-The- ology. It's Dirtance from the Earth is computed by Dr. Harris, {(cQ Jjironomical Dialogues, p. 75.) to be 70,000,000, of Miles, or 80, and it's Diameter, or Breadth from one Side to the other, about Soo,oco Miles, which is above ioc,ooo times greater than the Diameter of our Eartli : and therefore the Bulk, or rather Quantity of Matter in the Sun, mult exceed that of the Earth, above 1 00,000,000 times (p. 76.) f. 741, 742. Beiic-Jd the Hea-vens 'were made of Stone, — Be^. cauje the Sun had 'voided one.J \''idc Diogenis Laertii Anaxagor. lib. 2, fegm. h PART II. CANTO III. 71 What Politicks^ or ftrange Opinions, That are not in our own Dominions 9 j^^ What Science can be brought from thence, In which we do not here commence ? What Revelations, or Religions, That are not in our native Regions ? Are fweating Lantborns, or Screen-Fans, 760 Made better there, than th' are in France ? Or do they teach iojing and play O'th' Gittar there a newer Way ? Can they make Plays there, that fhall fit The puhlick Humour, with lefs JVit ? 765 Write wittier Dances, quainter Shows, Or fight with more ingenious Blows F Or does the Man \ th' Moon look big, And wear a huger Periwig, Shew in his Gate, or Face^ more Tricks 770 Than our own Native Lunaticks f iegm. 10, II, 12. See a banter upon the Prodigy of raining Stones, Barclay's Argents^ lib. 2. cap. 4. p. 133. edit. 4'°. i^. 7^9. Are fiveating Lanl horns, or Screeu-Fans.'\ Screen-Fans ztq made of Pafte-board, Straw, Feathers, or fome fuch light Materials, and are often hung up by Chimneys, to be ufed occafionally for defending the Face or Eyes from the Fire. (Mr. D.) ;!'. 763. Can they make Plays there, &c.] 'See Cer'-jantcs"^ Life by Mr. Jar'vis, prefixed to his Tranflation of Den ^iLrcte, p. 30, 31.) Mr. TVarburton is of Opinion, That the Plays here menti- oned, are thofe which were after fatyrized by the Rehewfal. This may be true with Regard to fome ; but Mr. Dryden, the princi- pal Perfon fatyriz'd in that Play, ftands clear. For his firft Play, the Wild Gallant, was firft publifh'd in 1668, or 1669. (See his Life, General Hifiorical DiSIionary, p. 678.; and thefe Lines un- der Confideration, were publiili'd in the Year 1664. i, 767, 768. Or dees the Man i' th' Moon look big, — And ivcar a E 4- hugtr 72 HU D I B RA S. But if w' out-do him here at Home, What Good of your Delign can come ? As iViJidV th' Hypocondries ^eniy Is but a Blaftif downward fent ; yy^ But if it upward chance to fly, Becomes new Light and Prophecy : So when your Speculations tend Above their juft and ufeful End, Although they promife ftrange and great 780 Difcoveries of things far fet, buger Perivjrg'] A Banter probably upon the French. For in 1629 is reckon'd the Epocha of long Perrukes ; at which Time they began to appear at Paris, whence they fpread by degrees throughout the reft oi Europe. Chamberis Cydouedia, (fee Perruke.) f. 770. Than cur o^-tz Native Ltinaiicks :'] A Sneer probably upon the then Lunatic Houfe of i on.monsy who were Jitendly taken for Madmen, by a Country Bumpkin : Ke oeiiring to fee Bcdlarriy was cany d to the Houfe of Commons, and peepinc; in at the l.ob- by, by his Friend's Diredion, and feeing theMcr.oers in a Hur- ly, attended with great Noife, as was I'lual in thofe Times ; he fcourd oiT at the Sight, v/.th an Outci y all the Way as he went. That the Madmen were broke loofe. (U Ejhanges Fables, part 2. fab. 165.) f. 773, 774. j^s f^l^d r th'' Hypocond'ies pent — Is but a Blaji if d.-zvtnvas-d fcnt.'\ Tlae Alteration by the merry 'Writer of a Traft, in'itled, The Benefit cf F — t—g E- plain d. Is but a F — t f doivi7Vjard fnt.l V/hich he defines (p. 9.) to be, " A Nitro-aerial V apour, exhaled from an adjacent Pond of " llagnant V/ater, of a faline Nature, ard rai-eficd, and fabiimed " into the Nofe of a microcofmical Alemlic, by the gentle Heat •' o': z Jiercorareous Balneum, with a ilrong EiKpyreiima, and forc"d *' through the Pcfteriors^ by the compreiTive Power ofthecom- *' pulfive FacuUy." Which 'f bought, was probably borrow'd, from a Book intitled, Facetia.' Facctiarum : Hoc efi, Jcico-Serioriim Fafcicidus Novus, Pa- thopoli, 1657. p. 42. where is the following Queftion, and An- fwer. An peditus arte chymica diftillari poffit, ita ut educatur quinta pedxtuum effentia ? Refp. Maxime, fed cum fpiritus fmt^ idcirco rscipiente PART II. CANTO III. 7;^ They are but idle Dreams and Fancies, And iavour ilrongly of the Ganzas. Tell me but v/hat's the nat'ral Caufe, Why on a Sign no Painter dr^Lws ^85 Th^ Full-Moon ever, but th^Halfi Refoive that with your Jacob's Staff'-, Or why JVohes raile a Hubbub at her. And Dogs howl when fhe fhines in Water; And I Ihall freely give my Vote, 790 You may know fomething more remote? recipiente amplo, quali utuntur in o!eo vitrioli, & podice arete ap- plicato, excipiendi funt magna copia ; deinde condenfandi in oieo- iam fubftantiam ; five balfamum : Qui poftea per circulationem in fole perfici debet, & fiet quinta EfTentia maximarum facultatum. See ti)'pocc7idriack Regions, ^incy's and Blauchard's Pljjical Dicli- onaries, and Baily. f. 77 J, 776. But if it upivards chance tojly, — Becomes nenjo Light and Prophecy, ^ Quando intro conduntur, £•: revolvuntur, vel oc- cluduutur, flatus illi caput replent, & propter exhalationum multi- tudinem imaginationem corrumpunt, melancholicos, phreniticos, faciunt; aliifque graviflimis moruis hominemimplicant. Facet. Fa- cet iar. &c. De peditu, ejufque fpeciehus, p. 35. f. 782. And favour Jirongly of the Ganzas!\ Gonzo.go (or Do- mingo Gonfalcs) wrote a Voyage to the Moon, and pretended to be carried tliither by Geefe, in Spanijh Ganzas. (Mr. W.) See an Epi- tome of his Romance, 'Turkijh Spy, vol. 5. book 2. chap. 11. f. 7S6. Rcflve that ivith your Jacob's Staff.^ A mathematical Initrument for taking Heights and Diftances. (See Chamber sh Cy- clopedia,) Reach then a faring S^ill, that may •z'j'ile As 'with a Jacob's Stapf to take her tiight. (k k'velund's Hecatomb to his Mifref, p. T I .) See a remarkable Account of an AJlrologer at the King of Spain's Court, who v.'ithout the Help of this Inilrument, with the naked Fye, could nearly take Heights. Ladys Tra'vels, Sec. g''^ edit, part 3. p. 251. >'•. 787. Qr ivhy Wolves raif a Hubbub at her.'\ Et alte Per no£lem refonare, Lupis ululantibus, urbes. (rirgihi Gcorg. lib. I. 4^5, 486.) Nox\t 74 HV D I B RA S. At this deep Sidrophel look'd wife, 4 And ilaring round with Owl- like Eyes, I He put his Face into a Pofture * Of Sapience, and began to bkiiler : "795 For having three Times ihook his Head To flir his Wit up, thus he faid: Art has no mortal Enemies Next IgnorancCy but Owls and Geefe; Thofe confecrated Geefe in Orders, Boo That to the Capitol wtxQ Warders : iVi?7t7 the hungry Lion row s, and the Wolf hehools the Moon. Sbakt- fpear\ Midfummer Night^s Dream, aft 5. vol. I. p. 146. (See Mr. Warburtcns Note.) Pray you no more of this, 'tis like the Ho^u- iing of Irilh Wohues oga'niji the Moon. (Shak?fpear%, As you like it, vol. 2. p. 260.) See Fletcher s Fair Shepherdefs. if, 793, 794. He put his Face into a Fojlure — Of Sapience, and hgan tc hlujln-.] Much like this Contiait, was that between Sir Sofnpfcn Legetul, and old Forefght, (Congrenje's Love for Lo-ve, a£t, z. fc. 5,) when they were treating a Match between Ben, the Son oi Sir Sampfcn, and ^'lifs Prue, old Forefght''^ Daughter. Six Samp- fon talking in a rotnantick Strain, and calling Forefght, Brother Ca- pricorn, " Capricorn in your Teeth ;fays Forefght) thou modern *' Mar.de-Tjile, FerJinando Metidez Pinto was but a Type of thee, ** thou Liar of tlie firil Magnitude. Take back your Paper of In- *' heritance, fend your Son to Gea again. I'll wed my Daughter •' to an Egyptian Mummy, c^" Ihe fhall incorporate with a Con- *' temner of Science, andDefamer of ^/>/«f." f. 797, 798. Art has 710 mortal Enemies — Next Ignorance, J Et quod vulgo aiunC artem non habere inimicum nifi ignorantem, Pkne telle Li-vio, miraculum literarum res nova, imo plerumque exofa eft iiiter rudes artiam homines. Kic. Reufner. Symbolcr. Im- ferator. clafl". 1. fymbol. 64. p. 136. Thou hii'Jl the Kail in all Things right, hut O the Score f That Caitiff Kerne, fo ftout, fo fern, ill thrive he e-vermore : That capt thee for a Bunch of Grapes, ten thoufajid Ti-velsfup- plant him, Ifce^vell, Science hath mi Foeman, nifi ignorantem. (Rob. Riccomontanus\ Panegyrick Verfes upon T. Coryat.) y- 199} <^°^' Thofe confecrated Geefe in Orders, — That to the Capitol I PART II. CANTO III. ^^ And being then upon Patrol y With Noife alone beat off the Gaul: Or thofe Athenian Sceptic Owls, That will not credit their own Souli ; 805 Or any Science underftand. Beyond the Reach of Eye or Hand : But meaf'ring all Things by their own Knowledge, hold nothing's to be known : Thofe Whole-fale Criticks, that in Coffee- 810 Hotifes, cry down all Philofophy, Capitol "jjere Warders."] The Capitol was faved by the cackling of the Geefe, when befieged by Brennus the Gaul. (Livii Hijior. lib, 5. cap. 47. vol. I. p. 388. Ed. J. Clerici. See J. Taylor's Goofe.) The Remaps in Memory of this, ever after fed Getk in that Place, at the publick Charge ; by whofe Image they reprefented hi'c Cuf- todv. See Mr. Satufyh Notes on the ninth Book of O-vid's Metanwr- phofis, p. 217. "J. Taylors Goofe, Works, p. log. Montaigtiis Bffays, vol. z. chap. 11. p. 154. Notes on Creech's Lucretius, book 4. p. 366. See an Account of Socrates's iwearing by a Goofe. ^enagii Ohfcrtat. in Dicgen. Laertium Segm. 40. And a humorous Poem, intitled, Upoti a late Order for Jhooting the Geefe, in the Parks fcbotit St. James's. Mifcell. Poems, publiihed by D. Lezvis, 1730, P 3^5 • )lr. 803. Cr thofe Athenian Sceptic Oivls.'] The Owl was facred to Minerva, and called the .5/ri^o/' Athens. Fafl by the Croiv the Bird cfFailasfat Infilent Wonder, both fufpend their Hate, Mr. Fentons Notes upon Waller, p. 4. See Mr. Gayh Fable of tnjoo Oavls, and a Sparro'zv. The Owl was in high Efteem with the Tartars : The Realbn this ^ one of their Kings, named Chungius Can (a great Favourite) being purfued by his Enemies, hid himfcif in a Bulh, whither they came to feek him : An Owl flying out of it, they defilled from farther Search. Hence in Gratitude they wear in their Helmets Owls Fea- thers. (See Voyage, &c. of i'/V John Maundevile, cap. 21. Pwr-. fhafe his Pilgrims, part 3. lib. 1. p 112. Fuller's Hifory of the Uplj War, bpok 4, chap. 1. p. 169.) 76 HUDIBRAS. And will not kpxow upon what Ground In Nature, wp. our Doulrine found, Altho' with pregnant Evidence We can demonflrate it to Senfe, €15 As I juil: now have done to you. Foretelling what you came to know. Were the Stars only made to light Robbers, and Burglarers by Night? To wait on Drunkards, Thieves, Gold-fin- 820 And hovers folacing behind Doors, \ders, Of giving one another Pledges Of Matrimony under Hedges f Or Witchtsji/np/ing, and on Gibbets Cutting from MalefaElors Snippets ? 825 Or from the Pillory Tips of Ears Of Rebel- Saints and Perjurers? Only to ftand by, and look on, But not know what is faid, or done ? f. 8-17. Were the Stars cr.Jy made to lights &c.] See GaJJendus^S Vanity of 'Judiciary Aftrology, chap. 18. p. 115. y'. 823, 824. Or Witches ftmpltng, and 07t Gihhets — Cutting from Ifrtahfa^ors Snippets.'] In the Ingredients of the Witches Chaira (Skkrfpmr&lragedy 0/" Macbeth, aft 4. vol. 5. p. 439.) are die fbilowing : Nofe ofTurk, end Tartars LipSy Finger of Birth-firnr.gled Babey Ditch-deliver* d by a Drab. Make the Gruel thick and fab : Add the-cto a Tyger's Chavjdron. p. 441. \f Witch. Pour in So~m's Blood, that hath eaten Her nine Farronxj, Greafe that's fvjeaten From the Murtherers Gibbet, throuo Into the Flame." Hair frcm the Skulls of dying Strumpets Jhorn, And Felons Bones frcm rifed Gibbets torn. Like PART II. CANTO III. 77 Is there a Confiellation there, 830 That was not born, and bred up here? And therefore cannot be to learn In any inferior Concern. Were they not, during all their Lives, Moft of 'em Pyrates, Whores and Thieves? %i^^ And is it like they ha-ve not flill In their old Practices fome Skill ? Is there a Planet that by Birth Does not derive its Houfe from Earth ^ And therefore probably mufl know 840 What is, and hath been done below: Who made the Balancei or whence came The Bu/I, the Lmzj and the Ram ^ Did not we here the ^rgo rig. Make Berenice s Perkvig ? 845 Who(e Livry does the Coachman we2xl Or who made Cajiopeids Chair? Like ihofe 'which fome old Hag at Midnight fteals. For Witchcraft, Amulets, and Charms, and Spells, Are pafl for J acred, to the cheapening Rout, And'voorn on Finders, Breafis, and Ears about- (Oldhatns ^^ Satyr agarnfi the Jefuits, edit. 6. p-75.) See Manner of enchanting in Medea ^ Days, Mr. Q. Sandys'% Notes vpon the ']''^ Book of Ovid'j Met amor phofes. See likcwife Admirabii Hifiory of a Magician, 4'° London 1^)13, p. 352. 'jf. 829, 830. Is there a Confiellation there, — That =iva% not bortu and bred up here ?'\ For the E;< plan ation of this, fee the Pafiage of Sir Ifaac Ne>. 881. The /<'«'7?fiS' Scaligcr, JtV.] * Copernicus in Libris Re- volutionum, deinde Reinholdiis, poll etiam Stadias, Mathematici nobiles perfpicuis Demonftrationibas docuerunt, folis Apfida Ter- ris efle propiorem, quam Ptolemjei actate duodecim partibus, i. e. uno & triginta terrse femidiametris. Cjo. Bod. Met, Hiji. p. 455.) ii. 882. ''Gainji ivhat Copernicus maintain d.^ After this Line in the firft Editions of 1664, ftand thefe four irftead of the eight following ones, fix of which were added in 1674. About the Su?z's and EartUs Approach, And/nxicre that he, that dar d to broach Such paultry Fopperies abroad, DefernJ'd to ha^je his Rump ''. 894. He kne-w lefs, &c.] Ee kne-M no more, SzC. two firft Editions 1664. i/. 89-, 89*^. Cardan hele-iPd great States depend— Upon the Tip 0' th' Bear's TaiVs End] Putat dn-danus ab Extrema Cauda Vol. II. F Majorit 82 H U D I B RA S. Which others fay muft needs be falk, 900 Becaufe your true Bears have no Tails. Some fay the Zodiack Confiellatmis [tions Have long fince chang'd their antique Sta- Above a ^ign, and prove the fame In 'Taurus novi^, once in the Ram : 905 Affirm'd the Trigo/is chopp'd and chang'd^ The Watry with the Fiery rang'd> Majoris Urf^, omne Magnum imperium pendere. ('Jo. Bcdini Met. Hijl. p. 325.) Dr. James Young obferves, (Sidrefhel Vapulans, p. 29.) that Cardan lofl his Life to lave his Credit : For having predided the Time of his own Death, he ftarved himfelf to verify it : Or elfe being fure of his Art, he took this to be his fatal i)ay, and by thofe Apprehenfions made it fo. Gajfendus adds, (Vanity of 'Ju- diciary Ajirology, chap. 21. p. 159.) tliat he pretended cxadly tO' defcribe the Fates of his Children in his voluminous Commentaries^ *' Yet all this while never fufpecled from the Rules of his great " Art, that his deareft Son fliould be condemned to have his Head ** ftruck off upon a Scaffold by an Executioner of Juflice, for de- ** ftroying his own Wife by Poifon, in the Flower of his Youth." (See Dr. Long% Preface to his /Jironomyy p. 5.) i/. 900. Becaufe your true Bears haqje no Tails.^ This is not li- terally true, though they have very fhort ones. Urfis Natura cau- dam diminuit : quod reliquum corpus admodum pilofum. (Jrifot.J Caudae Parva: vitiofis animalibiis, ut U/y':s. fPlin.J Vide Conradz Gefneri Hijior. Jnima!. lib. i. p. 1067. The Earl of Zi/c^^r, when Governor of the Loi<: Countries, ufed to fign all Inflruments with his Crelt, which was the Be.-.r and the Ragged Staff, (the Loat of the Warnxick-F amily y from which he was defcendedi inflead of his owrt Coat, which was the Greev. Lion with two Trails : Upon which the Dutch, who fufpefted him of ambitious Defigits, wrote under hi* Creft, fet up in publick Pl.ices, Urfa caret Cauda, non queat efle Leo. The Bear he nei'sr can pre-jnil To Lioii it, for ^jcant cf Tail. (Fuller's Iforthies of Enghnd, Warwickfhire, p. 118.) f. 901. Some fay the Zodiack ConpHatiois.] This and the three following Lines inferted 1674. In the iirll Editions of 1664 they ftand thus : Sotne PART II. CANTO III. Sj Then how can their Effe^s ftill hold To be the fame they were of old ? This, though the^r/ were true, would make 910 Our modern Soothfayers miftake : And is one Caufe they tell more Lies, In Figures and Nativities, Than th' old Chaldean Conjurers, In fo many hundred thoufand Years ; Some fay the Stars f tP Zodiack, Are more than a ivhole Signe g07ie back : Si}ice Ptolomy ; and pro'-f^v.] Vide Diodori Siculi Rer. Antiquar. lib. 3. cap. 8. 'Jo. Pici MiranduU in Afirolog. lib. 1. torn. I. p. 288. An Account of the Original and Progrefs of AfircncTHy amongft the AncieaiJ. Notes upon Crecai^ Lucretius^ vol. 2. p. 516, 517. i!. 915, 916, 917, 918. Befide their ■ Nonfenfe in travjlating, — For '••jant of Accidence and Latifi, — Like Idus, nr.d Calenda;, Englijht,—The ^tarter-Days by Jkilful Linguif.'] A Banter pro- bably upon Sir i2;r/5'^r.'i' F«»/,?'flT'/s 1 ranflation oi Horace, las the Reverend Mr. Smith d Harlefcn obferved to me) Epcd. 2. 69, yo. F 2 Omnibus 84 H U D I B R A S\ 9 1 5 Befide their Nonfenfe in tranllating, For want of Accidence and Latin, Like Idiis, and CalendcBy Engliflit The ^larter-Days, by fkilful Linguift : And yet with Canti?ig, Slight and Cheat, 920 'Twill ferve their Turn to do the Feat : Make Fools believe in their forefeeing Of Things before they are in Being -, To fwallow Gudgeons e're th' are catch'd ; And count theirC/6/Vie';?j,e're th'arehatch'd ; 925 Make them the Conjiellations prompt. And give 'em back ther own Accompt ; But ftill the bell to him that gives The befl Price for't, or bell believes. Omnibus relegit Idibus pecuniam, Qua-rit Caktidis ponere. At Ivlichaelmas call all his Monies in, jlnd, at our Lady, puts them out again. ■jr, 924. Avd cci'.nt'thpr Chickens, e^re tU are hatcyd."] See this explained, Baily\ Diiliotiary, folio edit, under the Proverb, To fell the Bear s c^kin before he's caught. See the Story of /Jlnafchar in the Perfan Fable, who was in Hopes of raifing his Fortunes by his Crockery-'' are, SpeSIator N° 535. And the Fable of the MiU- Maid and Miikivg-Pail. Sir Roger VEf ranges Fables, part 2. lab. 2O5. . "jr. 929, 930. Some To'vjns, and Cities, fome for Brenjity — Ha've cafl the t'crfal World's Nalinjity.^ Lucius Tarutius Firmanus, fami- liaris nolier, in primis Chaldaicif raiicnibus eruditus, urbis etiam 7joflra, natalem diem repetebat ab iis parilibus, quibus earn a Romulo conditam accepimus, Rotnamque in jugo cum efiet Luna, natam efle dicebat. Cic. de di-vittatior.e, lib. 2. p. 249. edit. Davis, 1721. [Ur. D.J f. 936. Lazu-Suits,— ] See Kekvays firft Book Of the Jiidgir.ent of }\ati'vitie!, chap. 30. Of Suits and Enemies. ^. 939. Alaie Oppofiticn, Trine and !^artile.'\ Triue-Afpeil of two Planets, is, when they are diftant from each other 120 De- 3 gi-ee^. PART II. CANTO III. 85 Some Tow?iSy fome Cities^ fome for Brevity •930 Have cafl the verfiil \\[od