Inftead of trumpet and of drum,

That makes the warrior's ftomach come,
Whose noise whets valour sharp, like beer

By thunder turn'd to vinegar.

(For if a trumpet found, or drum beat, Who has not a month's mind to combat?) A fqueaking engine he apply'd

Unto his neck, on north-east fide,

Juft where the hangman does difpofe,

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To fpecial friends, the knot of noose :

For 'tis great grace, when statesmen straight
Dispatch a friend, let others wait.

His warped ear hung o'er the strings,

Which was but foufe to chitterlings:

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For guts, fome write, ere they are fodden,
Are fit for music or for pudden;

From whence men borrow every kind

Of minstrelsy by string or wind.

His grifly beard was long and thick,
With which he ftrung his fiddle-stick ;
For he to horse-tail scorn'd to owe
For what on his own chin did grow.
Chiron, the four-legg'd bard, had both
A beard and tail of his own growth;
And yet by authors 'tis averr'd,
He made ufe only of his beard.

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obferve in this place, that we have the exact characters of the ufual attendants at a bear-baiting fully drawn, and a catalogue of warriors, conformable to the practice of Epic poets.

Kings were proclaim'd by a horse that neigh'd).

The knee with one of timber 's propt,

With truncheon tipp'd with iron head,
The warrior to the lifts he led ;

With folemn march, and ftately pace,
But far more grave and folemn face;
Grave as the Emperor of Pegu,
Or Spanish potentate, Don Diego.

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Ver. 147. Next march'd brave Orfin.] Next follow'd, in the two first editions of 1663. Joshua Gofling, who kept bears at Paris-garden in Southwark. However, fays Sir Roger, he food hard and fat for the Rump Parliament.

This leader was of knowledge great,

Either for charge or for retreat :
He knew when to fall on pell-mell,
To fall back, and retreat as well.

So lawyers, left the Bear defendant,

And plaintiff Dog, fhould make an end on 't,
Do ftave and tail with Writs of Error,
Reverse of Judgment, and Demurrer,
To let them breathe a while, and then
Cry Whoop, and fet them on again.
As Romulus a wolf did rear,
So he was dry-nurs'd by a bear,
That fed him with the purchas'd prey
Of many a fierce and bloody fray;

Bred up, where difcipline moft rare is,
In military garden Paris:

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They 'ad found out of an antique engine,

To root out all the weeds, that grow

In public gardens, at a blow,

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Ver. 159, 160.] Thus altered in the edition of 1674,

Knew when t' engage his bear pell-mell,

And when to bring him off as well.

Pell-mell, i, e. confufedly, without order.

And leave th' herbs ftanding. Quoth Sir Sun,
My friends, that is not to be done.

Not done! quoth Statefman; Yes, an 't please ye,
When 'tis once known, you 'll say 'tis easy.

Why then let's know it, quoth Apollo:
We'll beat a drum, and they 'll all follow.

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A drum! (quoth Phoebus) Troth that 's true,

A pretty invention, quaint and new:

But though of voice and inftrument
We are th' undoubted prefident,
We fuch loud mufic do not profefs,
The Devil's mafter of that office,
Where it must pafs; if 't be a drum,
He'll fign it with Cler. Parl. Dom. Com.;
To him apply yourselves, and he
Will foon dispatch you for his fee.
They did fo; but it prov'd fo ill,
They 'ad better let them grow there still.
But to resume what we difcourfing
Were on before, that is, ftout Orfin;
That which so oft by fundry writers
Has been apply'd t' almost all fighters,
More juftly may be afcrib'd to this
Than any other warrior, (viz.).

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Ver. 194.] The Houfe of Commons, even before the Rump had murdered the King, and expelled the Houfe of Lords, ufurped many branches of the Royal Prerogative, and particularly this for granting licences. for new inventions.

None ever acted both parts bolder,

Both of a chieftain and a foldier.
He was of great descent, and high
For fplendour and antiquity,
And from celeftial origine
Deriv'd himself in a right line;
Not as the ancient heroes did,

Who, that their base-births might be hid
(Knowing they were of doubtful gender,
And that they came in at a windore)

Made Jupiter himself, and others

O' th' Gods, gallants to their own mothers,
To get on them a race of champions

(Of which old Homer first made lampoons)
Arcophylax, in northern sphere,

Was his undoubted ancestor;

From him his great forefathers came,

And in all ages bore his name:

Learn'd he was in med'cinal lore,

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For by his fide a pouch he wore,

Replete with strange hermetic powder,

That wounds nine miles point-blank would folder;

By skilful chemift, with great coft,

Extracted from a rotten post;

But of a heavenlier influence

Than that which mountebanks difpenfe;

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Ver. 211.] This is one inftance of the Author's making great things little, though his talent lay chiefly the other way.