"the Parliament Title, and that they should have no more Kings "to reign over them." See a Tract intitled A Declaration of the feveral Treafons, Blafphemies, and Misdemeanours, acted, spoken, and published by that grand Wizard and Impoftor, William Lilly, published 1660, P. 8. The Third and Last PART. V. 85. A CANTO I. ND cut whole Giants into Fitters.] The Word Fitters is used in this Sense in near fifty Places by the Author of Romant of Romants. V. 150. He put his Band and Beard in Order.] Sir Philip Sidney, fpeaking of Bafilius, approaching Zelmane (Arcadia, Lib. iii. P. 349) fays, "And now, being come within Compass of difcerning her, he began to frame the loveliest Countenance that ." he could; ftroking up his Legs, fetting up his Beard in due Or"der, and standing Bolt-upright. * V. 307. It roar'd, O! bold, for Pity, Sir! I am too great a Sufferer.] This feems to hint at the Story of Polydorus in Virgil, Æn. iii. 41. Parce pias fcelerare Manus! O! for Pity! a favourite Expreffion of Spenfer's: O! for Pity!-Will rank Winter's Rage His bitter Blafts never 'gin t'affuage? What follows is taken from the Story of Ariel in Shakespear's Tempest. M. B. V. 329. Seek out for Plants with Signatures.] A Plant with a Signature is a Plant that, either in Root, in Leaf, or in Fruit, has a Similitude, or Agreement, in Figure, Colour, Texture, or other Accident, with fome Part of the Body, or Distemper, or Symptom of a Diftemper in Mankind; whence they judge it to be friendly and wholesome to fuch a Part of the Body, or useful to fuch or fuch a Diftemper. This Similitude, they think, is a Note impreffed upon it by Nature, to fignify its property that Way.And this Sort of Signatures the Chymifts build chiefly upon, to quack of univerfal Cures. Mr. Ray, in his Hiftory of Plants, detefts and abhors the Thought of thefe Imaginations, Semblances, and their Operations. Vid. Raii Hift. Plantar. Tom. i. P. 46. M. B. V. 340. And Hemp on wooden Anvils forg'd, Which others for Cravats have worn.] See an Account of Pantagruelion (in Rabelais, Book iii. Chap. 49, 50, 51) manufactured into a Halter, and serving in the Place and Office of a Cravat. M. B. V. 397. V. 397. By feeding me on Beans and Peafe.] "Thofe who are Sorcerers never perform any Act whereby another "may be profited: They practile their Mockeries by Things appearing ridiculous, as bitten Beans, &c." See the Hiftory of Perfiles and Sigifmonda, Book ii. Chap. viii. P. 144. 66 V. 1019. And, when you have more Debts to pay, Than Michaelmas and Lady-Day, &c.] Two terrible Days to fuch Perfons as Dr. Fuller mentions, (Holy State, Book ii. Chap. 13): "A Farmer rented a Grange, generally reported to be haunted by Fairies, and paid a fhrewd Rent for "the fame, at each Half-Year's End. A Gentleman asked him, "how he durft be so hardy as to live in the Houfe? and whether no Spirits did trouble him? Troth (faith the Farmer) there be "two Saints in Heaven vex me more than all the Devils in Hell, "namely, the Virgin Mary and Michael the Archangel; on which "Days he paid his Rent." V. I. ·A' CANTO II. N Infect Breeze.] Breeze is the fame with the Horfe-fly, or Gad fly. About th Alburnian Groves, with Holly green, Of winged Infects mighty Swarms are feen: A fierce, loud-buzzing Breeze, that fings, draws blood, And drives the Cattle gadding thro' the Wood. Dryden's Virgil, Georg. iii. 235, &c. V. 10. The Maggots of corrupted Texts.] Soon after the Publication of the fecond Edition of Hudibras, I discovered a Mistake, which I was led into by the late Dr. Wotton; who afferts, in a Vifitation Sermon at Newport Pagnel, in Bucks, 1706, "That the Independents firft altered the Text, As vi. 3. "Whom we may appoint over this Business, to Whom ye, &c." I take this Opportunity (with no fmall Pleafure) to correct the Mifake. It was printed in that corrupt Manner, (and was certainly an Error of the Prefs) in a beautiful Folio Edition of the Bible by Buck, at Cambridge, in the Year 1638. The Independents, finding the Mistake for their Purpose, might continue it in feveral of Field`s beautiful Editions of the Bible; from whence Butler, probably, called them The Maggots of corrupted Texts. V. 17. So Prefbyter begat the other Upon the good old Caufe, his Mother.] "The Prefbyterian was a Spawn of the Puritan, and the Independent "a Spawn of the Prefbyterian: There is but one Hop between the "firit and a few, and half a Hop betwixt the other and an Infidel,” A Venice Looking-glass, &c. P. 19, published 1648. Ff 2 1 V. 80. V. 80. As men with Sand-bags did of old.] "Tho' it may be difficult to afcertain the exact Time when Sand-bags were first introduced in Combats, the Use of them feems to be at leaft as antient as the Time of St. Chryfoftom; and they were then ufed as a Kind of Ceftus, as Mr. Whalley obferves, from the following Pafage: Ουχ ὁρᾷς 1ὲς ἀθλητὰς, Πῶς θυλάκος ἄμμε πληρώσανίες, ὅλω yourátora. Chryfoft. Hom. xix. in Hebræos, Edit. Monach. Benedict. γυμνάζονται. V. 94. And thofe he bad taught up, teach down.] V.94. This is confirmed by Bishop Sanderson, (Twenty Sermons, Pref. S. x. xi. Foulis's Hiftory of ricked Plots, P. 166). They had put these Queries to the Members of the Church of England: "What Command or "Example have you for kneeling at the Communion? for wearing "the Surplice? for Lord Bifhops? for a penn'd Liturgy? for keeping of Days, &c. The Independents, Anabaptifts, and Fifth-Mo"narchy-Men retort upon their amazed Father: Where are your Lay - Prefbyters, your Claffes, &c. to be found in Scripture ? "Where your Steeple-Houfes, your National Church, your Tythes "and Mortuaries, your Infant-Sprinklings? Nay, where your "Metre-Pfalms, your two Sacraments, your obferving a weekly "Sabbath? Shew us (fay they) a Command or Example for the "in Scripture. 66 66 V. 242. Deliver'd from th' Egyptian Awe Of Justice, Government, and Law.] "What hinders, fays Bishop Patrick, (Friendly Debate, Part ii. Page 398) but these Men may obtain their Design, who told you lately, that it would never be well, 'till the Laws of the Lord Jefus were received alone; that all our Counsellors and Pleaders bring in their Books of Common Law, and bestow them as the Stu"dents of curious Arts did theirs in the Apoftles' Times; that the Godly fend out their Writs to fuperfede all Proceedings in Weft"minfier-Hall, and judge all Things in their Churches ??? V. 3 375. Cou'd turn his Word, and Oath, and Faith, As many Ways as in a Lath.] The Turners have an Inftrument called a Lath.] A Sneer upon the Affembly of Divines, who wrote large Annotations upon the Bible; of whom Bifhop Patrick (Friendly Debate, Part i. P. 43) fpeaks in the following Manner: "A worthy Minister of my Acquaintance once told me, that your Affembly-Men, or other "Divines, who wrote large Annotations upon the Bible, (of the *Edition 1645) are very guilty in this Point; for, where there is fit Occafion (faid he) to fpeak against Sacrilege, and where other Expofitors are wont to declare the Foulnefs of the Sin, there they fay not a Word, but pafs it quite over, as if they knew of no fuch Thing in the Worldtho' he would not impute it to "their Ignorance, but to their bafe Cowardice, and flattering Dif pofition, which was loth to displease the Lords at that Time," And he gives feveral Inftances. 46 a V. 755. And burnt our Veffels, like a new 'Tis well known, that every one who does not bring his Peck, or Bufbel, to Guildhall, to be fealed, is punishable by Law. This is the Practice in London to procure good Measure, fealed Measure, because it is true. Cromwell, when he turned the Rump out of Doors, charged them with felling the Cavaliers' Eftates by Bundles, and faid they had kept no Faith with them. M. B. V. 773. Each other's Church was but a Rimmon.] Rimmon was a Heathen God of the Syrians, mentioned 2 Kings v. 18; Abaz joined with Tiglath Pilefer, King of Affyria, against Rezin, the King of Syria, his Enemy. In 2 Chron. xxviii. 23. 'tis faid, that he facrificed to the Gods of Damafcus- -and he was fo taken with their Worship, that he brought a Model of an Altar from thence, and fet it up at Jerusalem. V. 3. M. B. HAT Spring like Fern, that Infect Weed, See a Difproof of this, in a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Henry V. 15. As Roficrufian Virtuofa's Can fee with Ears, and hear with Nofes.] There is fomething like this in Rabelais: "Panurge, by Reafon of "his Spectacles, (as you may think) heard more plainly by half with "his Ears than ufually." So Shakespear, in his Midsummer-Night's Dream: 's gone to fee a Noife that he beard. He's g M. B. V. 27. For Men as refolute appear And, when they're out of Hopes of flying, And thofe they fled, like Ļions rout.] A A manifeft Allufion to the Combat of the two Cowards, Dametas and Clinias, in Pembroke's Arcadia, Book iii. V. 352. The Water-Rat, their strict Ally.] Holland is called a Neft of Water-Rats, by Mr. Howell, in his Dedona's Grove, P. 27. V. 357. And he that routs moft Pigs and Cors, The formidableft Man of Prow's.] This is, probably, a Sneer upon Venables and Pen, who were so unfortunate in their Expedition against the Spaniards, at St. Domingo in Hifpaniola, in the Year 1655. "Tis obferved of them," that they "exercised their Valour only on Horfes, Affes, and Neccoes, and "fuch like-making a Slaughter of all they met, greedily devouring Skins, Entrails and all, to fatiate their Hunger." Journal of the Proceedings of the English Army in the Weft-Indies. Harleian Mifcellany, Vol. 3. Num. 12. P. 494, 498. V. 457. But make their beft Advantages Of others Quarrels, like the Swifs.] Mr. Ofborne (See Traditional Memoirs of the Reign of King James) calls the Swifs the Cudgels with which all the reft of Mankind beat one another. And there is a remarkable Inftance of their refufing to fight without Pay, in the Hiftory of Henry IV. of France, tranflated from the French by Mr. Howell, P. 118. V. 597. That in the Morning he might free, Or bind them over for his Fee. Dr. Garth feems to have had thefe Lines in View in his Description of a Lawyer, who, I fuppofe, lived in his own Time: Nigh lives Vigellus, one reputed long For Strength of Lungs, and Pliancy of Tongue: Difpenfary, Canto iv. Lawyer's Mouth without a Fee, (meaning fuch a Lawyer as is "here characterized); but, if he were half dead, that would (like ftrong Water to a dying Man) make him gape, tho' he could not fpeak." And Sir Roger L'Efirange obferves, (Fables, Part i. Fab. 298.) That in Forma Pauperis is no good Lawyer's Latin.” 66 V. 59. The LADY's Aufwer to the KNIght. N OR can thofe falfe Saint Martin's Beads, I am told, that at Rochelle, not far from Saint Martin's, there is M. B. |