With saucer-eyes, and horns: and some Have heard the devil beat a drum: But if our eyes are not false glasses, When Hudibras the Lady heard, 135 140 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; 110 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. 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: 120 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. For spectres, apparitions, ghosts, 180 |