THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL BUTLER,

FROM

THE TEXTS OF DR. GREY AND MR. THYER,

WITH

The Life of the Author.

BY DR. JOHNSON.

Cooke's Edition.

Now you must know Sir Hudibras
With fuch perfections gifted was,

And fo peculiar in his manner,

That all that faw him did him honour.-HUD. AT COURT.

But fince his worthip's dead and pone,

Aud mould'ring lies beneath this ftone,

The Reader is defir'd to look

For his achievments in his Book;

Which will preferve of Knight the Tale,
Till Time and Death itself muft fail.

VOL. I.

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BODLEIAN

21 JUL 1961

LIBRARY

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

SAMUEL BUTLER.

VOL. I.

CONTAINING HIS

HUDI BRAS.

IN THREE PARTS.

Written in the Time of the late Wars. From

THE TEXT OF ZACH. GREY, LL.D.

WITH

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

By DR. JOHNSON.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND EMBELLISHED

Under the Direction of

C. COOKE.