With saucer-eyes, and horns: and some

Have heard the devil beat a drum:

But if our eyes are not false glasses,
That give a wrong account of faces;
That beard and I should be acquainted,
Before 't was conjur❜d and inchanted ;
For though it be disfigur'd somewhat,
As if 't had lately been in combat,
It did belong to a worthy Knight,
Howe'er this goblin is come by 't.

When Hudibras the Lady heard,
Discoursing thus upon his beard,

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And speak with such respect and honor,

Both of the beard, and the beard's owner;

Nor is it worn by fiend or elf,

But its proprietor himself.

O heav'ns! quoth she, can that be true;

I do begin to fear 't is you;

Between his knees, his hands apply'd

Unto his ears on either side;

And by him, in another hole,

Afflicted Ralpho, cheek by jole;

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him in his wooden

She came upon

Magician's circle, on the sudden,

As spirits do t' a conjurer,

When in their dreadful shapes th' appear.
No sooner did the Knight perceive her, 115
But straight he fell into a fever,

Inflam'd all over with disgrace,

To be seen by her in such a place ;

Which made him hang his head, and scowl,

And wink, and goggle like an owl,

He felt his brains begin to swim,

When thus: the dame accosted him:

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This place, quoth she, they say's inchanted, And with delinquent spirits haunted,

That here are ty'd in chains, and scourg'd 125 Until their guilty crimes be purg'd:

Look, there are two of them appear,

Like persons I have seen somewhere.
Some have mistaken blocks and posts

For spectres, apparitions, ghosts,

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