m'fingal

Updated: July 7, 2026

'Tis strange what difference there can be 'Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee. Hudibras has had many imitators, not the least successful of whom was the American John Trumbull, in his revolutionary satire, M'Fingal, some couplets of which are generally quoted as Butler's, as, for example, No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.

Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - From Chaucer to Tennyson