...swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore : When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared ging men to do that which the light of nature, common discretion, a-colonelling. A wight he was, whose very sight would Entitle him, mirror of knighthood ; That never...

...Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was, whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood; That never...

...So Butler, at the opening of " Hudibras," spoke of the times " when civic fury first grew high :" " spright; In heavenly mercies hast So of the stocks, described as » castle : ' In all the fabric You shall not see one stone nor a brick."...

...water. — Butler. Yet to his guest though no way sparing, He ate himself the rind and paring. — Pope. And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. — Butler. There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how...

...poem relies for its effect on quaint and ingenious collocations of ideas and unusual rhymes, eg: — " And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick." Callimachus (3d century BC): a Greek poet, librarian of the Alexandrian Library. He was the author...

...them knew wherefore; When Gospel Trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded, Aud pulpit drum ecclesiastic Was beat with fist instead...did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a coloneling." By the time you had reached the last line, you were ready to break into a roar of laughter,...

...Gospel-Trumpeter, yarounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiaj/zV, Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonellinff. Hudibras. Her favourite science was the mathematical, Her noblest virtue was her magnajzz'OTz'/j',...

...fourteenth line of essay. " Hudibras." By Samuel Butler (161 2-1 680). The couplet admired by Dennis runs: And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. John Dennis, the critic (1657-1734) and literary swashbuckler, oppugned puns in Letters upon several...

...Gospel-Trumpeter surrounded, With long-ear'd rout to Battel sounded, And Pulpit, Drum Ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick: Then did Sir...Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling. A Wight he was, whose very sight wou'd Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood; That never bent his stubborn...

...made a difference of eleven days. — 18. "a stick" . . . "ecclesiastic": Hudibras, I. 11-12: — " And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick." 19. a red petticoat: Ogle, when he belonged to the footguards, had pawned his trooper's cloak, and...