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As if religion was intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 205.
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 215.
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty,
For want of fighting was grown rusty,
And ate into itself, for lack
Of somebody to hew and hack.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 359.
For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 463.
He ne'er consider'd it, as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth.[211:1]
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 490.
And force them, though it was in spite
Of Nature and their stars, to write.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 647.
Quoth Hudibras, "I smell a rat![211:2]
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate."
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 821.
Or shear swine, all cry and no wool.[211:3]
Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 852.
And bid the devil take the hin'most.[211:4]
Hudibras. Part i. Canto ii. Line 633.
With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto ii. Line 831.
Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto ii. Line 872.
Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron![211:5]
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1.
Who thought he 'd won
The field as certain as a gun.[211:6]
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 11.
[212]
Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 263.
I 'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 277.
He had got a hurt
O' the inside, of a deadlier sort.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 309.
These reasons made his mouth to water.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 379.
While the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.[212:1]
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 398.
With mortal crisis doth portend
My days to appropinque an end.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 589.
For those that run away and fly,
Take place at least o' the enemy.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 609.
I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.[212:2]
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 877.
Cheer'd up himself with ends of verse
And sayings of philosophers.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1011.
If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in honour's truckle-bed.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1047.
When pious frauds and holy shifts
Are dispensations and gifts.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1145.
Friend Ralph, thou hast
Outrun the constable[212:3] at last.
Hudibras. Part i. Canto iii. Line 1367.
Some force whole regions, in despite
O' geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter,
And that which was before come after.
[213]But those that write in rhyme still make
The one verse for the other's sake;
For one for sense, and one for rhyme,
I think 's sufficient at one time.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 23.
Some have been beaten till they know
What wood a cudgel 's of by th' blow;
Some kick'd until they can feel whether
A shoe be Spanish or neat's leather.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 221.
No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 273.
Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 297.
Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.[213:1]
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 309.
For what is worth in anything
But so much money as 't will bring?
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 465.
Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.[213:2]
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 843.
The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,
And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn
From black to red began to turn.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29.
Have always been at daggers-drawing,
And one another clapper-clawing.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 79.
For truth is precious and divine,—
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 257.
Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 317.
[214]
He that imposes an oath makes it,
Not he that for convenience takes it;
Then how can any man be said
To break an oath he never made?
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 377.
As the ancients
Say wisely, have a care o' th' main chance,[214:1]
And look before you ere you leap;[214:2]
For as you sow, ye are like to reap.[214:3]
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.[214:4]
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1.
He made an instrument to know
If the moon shine at full or no.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261.
Each window like a pill'ry appears,
With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 391.
To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923.
There 's but the twinkling of a star
Between a man of peace and war.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 957.
But Hudibras gave him a twitch
As quick as lightning in the breech,
Just in the place where honour 's lodg'd,
As wise philosophers have judg'd;
Because a kick in that part more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.
Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1065.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 481.
[215]
Still amorous and fond and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 687.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was prov'd true before
Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1277.
'Cause grace and virtue are within
Prohibited degrees of kin;
And therefore no true saint allows
They shall be suffer'd to espouse.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1293.
Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick,
Though he gave his name to our Old Nick.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1313.
With crosses, relics, crucifixes,
Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,—
The tools of working our salvation
By mere mechanic operation.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto i. Line 1495.
True as the dial to the sun,[215:1]
Although it be not shin'd upon.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 175.
But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto ii. Line 443.
For those that fly may fight again,
Which he can never do that 's slain.[215:2]
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 243.
He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547.
With books and money plac'd for show
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.
Hudibras. Part iii. Canto iii. Line 624.
[216]
And poets by their sufferings grow,[216:1]—
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.
Fragments.
[210:1]
He Greek and Latin speaks with greater ease
Than hogs eat acorns, and tame pigeons peas.
Cranfield: Panegyric on Tom Coriate.
[210:2] See Shakespeare, page 50.
[210:3] See Skelton, page 8.
[210:4] See Bacon, page 170.
[211:1] See Heywood, page 11.
[211:2] See Middleton, page 172.
[211:3] See Fortescue, page 7.
[211:4] Bid the Devil take the slowest.—Prior: On the Taking of Namur.
Deil tak the hindmost.—Burns: To a Haggis.
[211:5] See Spenser, page 27.
[211:6] Sure as a gun.—Dryden: The Spanish Friar, act iii. sc. 2. Cervantes: Don Quixote, part i. book iii. chap. vii.
[212:1] See Middleton, page 172.
[212:2] He that is down needs fear no fall.—Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress, part ii.
[212:3] Outrun the constable.—Ray: Proverbs, 1670.
[213:1]
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
Cowper: Conversation, line 357.
[213:2] See Skelton, page 8.
[214:1] See Lyly, page 33.
[214:2] See Heywood, page 9.
[214:3] Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.—Galatians vi.
[214:4] This couplet is enlarged on by Swift in his "Tale of a Tub," where he says that the happiness of life consists in being well deceived.
[215:1]
True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.
Barton Booth: Song.
[215:2]
Let who will boast their courage in the field,
I find but little safety from my shield.
Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey:
This made me cast my useless shield away.
And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life, which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain;
But who can get another life again?
Archilochus: Fragm. 6. (Quoted by Plutarch, Customs of the Lacedæmonians.)
Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus illum magis Græcum versiculum secularis sententiæ sibi adhibent, "Qui fugiebat, rursus prœliabitur:" ut et rursus forsitan fugiat (But overlooking the divine exhortations, they act rather upon that Greek verse of worldly significance, "He who flees will fight again," and that perhaps to betake himself again to flight).—Tertullian: De Fuga in Persecutione, c. 10.
The corresponding Greek, Ἀνὴρ ὁ φεύγων κaὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται, is ascribed to Menander. See Fragments (appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bib. Græca,), p. 91.
That same man that runnith awaie
Maie again fight an other daie.
Erasmus: Apothegms, 1542 (translated by Udall).
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure
Pent combattre derechef
(He who flies at the right time can fight again).
Satyre Menippée (1594).
Qui fuit peut revenir aussi;
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