Are mine by military law,

Of which I will not bate one straw:

The rest, thy life and limbs once more,

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And gave them life and freedom too;
Both dogs and bear, upon their parole,

Whom I took pris'ners in this quarrel.

Quoth Trulla, Whether thou or they

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Let one another run away,

Concerns not me; but was 't not thou

And serve to be exchang'd for him.

This said, the Knight did straight submit, 915

And laid his weapons at her feet,

Next he disrob'd his gaberdine,

And with it did himself resign.

She took it, and forthwith divesting

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The mantle that she wore, said, jesting,
Take that, and wear it for my sake;

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Then threw it o'er his sturdy back.
And as the French we conquer'd once,
Now give us laws for pantaloons,

To share i' th' honor and the prey,

And out of Hudibras his hide
With vengeance to be satisfy'd,

Which now they were about to pour

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Upon him in a wooden show'r.
But Trulla thrust herself between,

And striding o'er his back again,

She brandish'd o'er her head his sword,

And vow'd they should not break her word; 940

Sh' had giv'n him quarter, and her blood
Or theirs should make that quarter good,
For she was bound by law of arms

To see him safe from further harms.

In dungeon deep Crowdero cast
By Hudibras as yet lay fast;

Where, to the hard and ruthless stones,
His great heart made perpetual moans :
Him she resolv'd that Hudibras

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Should ransom and supply his place.

This stopt their fury and the basting
Which towards Hudibras was hasting.
They thought it was but just and right
That what she had achiev'd in fight
She should dispose of how she pleas'd ;

Crowdero ought to be releas'd:

Nor could that any way be done

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Orsin led Hudibras' beast,

And Talgol that which Ralpho prest;
Whom stout Magnano, valiant Cerdon,
And Colon waited as a guard on;

All ush'ring Trulla in the rear,
With the arms of either prisoner.
In this proud order and array

They put themselves upon their way,

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Striving to reach th' enchanted castle,

Where stout Crowdero in durance lay still.

Thither with greater speed, than shows

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And triumphs over conquer'd foes

Do use t' allow; or than the bears,

Or pageants borne before lord mayors
Are wont to use, they soon arriv'd

In order soldier-like contriv'd;

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Still marching in a warlike posture,

As fit for battle as for muster.

The Knight and Squire they first unhorse,
And bending 'gainst the fort their force,

They all advanc'd, and round about

Begirt the magical redoubt.

Magnan' led up in this adventure,

And made way for the rest to enter.

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For he was skilful in black art

No less than he that built the fort:

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And with an iron-mace laid flat

A breach, which straight all enter'd at ;
And in the wooden dungeon found
Crowdero laid upon the ground.

Him they release from durance base,
Restor❜d t' his fiddle and his case,

And liberty, his thirsty rage

With luscious vengeance to assuage:

For he no sooner was at large,

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But Trulla straight brought on the charge, 1000

And in the self-same limbo put

The Knight and Squire, where he was shut; Where leaving them in Hockley-i'-th'-hole,i Their bags and durance to condole,

Confin'd and conjur❜d into narrow -*

Inchanted mansion to know sorrow

In the same order and array

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Which they advanc'd they march'd away.
But Hudibras, who scorn'd to stoop

To fortune, or be said to droop,

Cheer'd himself with ends of verse,

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And sayings of philosophers.

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