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There was, indeed, a solemn-visaged, long-headed, elderly man among King Hudibras' followers who was known as the medicine-man to the royal household, but his services were not often in request, because people were seldom ill, save when they were going to die, and when that time came it was generally thought best to let them die in peace.
At this juncture several dogs burst into the room and gambolled with their royal master, as with one who is a familiar friend. When the princess reached the outer door she found the woman standing, and evidently in a rage. "Is this the way King Hudibras teaches his varlets to behave to poor people who are better than themselves?"
"You can jeer at that poor lady's poetry, yet take pleasure in such balderdash as Hudibras!" "I love wit, dearest; though I am not witty. But as for your Princesse de Cleves, I find her ineffably dull." "That is because you do not take the trouble to discover for whom the characters are meant. You lack the key to the imbroglio," said his wife, with a superior air.
It describes the adventures of a fanatical justice of the peace, Sir Hudibras, and of his squire, Ralpho, in their endeavor to put down all innocent pleasures. In Hudibras and Ralpho the two extreme types of the Puritan party, Presbyterians and Independents, are mercilessly ridiculed.
Such is a brief outline of the lives and fortunes of those two persons in whose society Mannering now found himself comfortably seated. Hudibras.
I sat up till past one o'clock a few nights ago, and caught cold, looking through the whole of Hudibras, for what at last could not be found in it, though I still am confident it is there Murder is lawful made by the excess. In the middle of my hunt my mind misgave me that it was in the Fable of the Bees, and I went through it line by line, and for my pains can swear it is not there.
Fuller's Worthys, the Cabbala or Collections of Letters of State, and a little book, Delices de Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good use or serious pleasure: and Hudibras, both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies.
Considering the vast preliminary knowledge, both of men and things, necessary to the judicious completion of each particular purchase, you will, unless you opine, with Hudibras, that "The pleasure is as great, Of being cheated, as to cheat," be very slow in making any acquisition of price, from such a suspected source as the cabinet of the antiquary.
It accounts for the wicked wit and raillery of Hudibras, when so many professors threw off the mask and gloried in their hypocrisy Butler shut his eyes to the cruel sufferings of thousands who perished in jails, the martyrs to the sincerity of their faith and conduct.
"Your father lives very far from here," returned the Hebrew, with the lines of perplexity still resting on his brow. "That is true; but Beniah's legs are long and his body is strong. He can soon let my father know of his daughter's misfortune. You know that my father is a powerful chief, though his tribe is not so strong in numbers as the tribe of King Hudibras, or that that fiend Gunrig.
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