HUDIBRAS. PART II.-CANTO I. THE ARGUMENT. The knight, being clapped by th' heels in prison, The last unhappy expedition, Love brings his action on the case, And lays it upon Hudibras. How he receives the lady's visii, And cunningly solicits his suit, UT now, t' observe romantique method, BUT Let rusty steel a while be sheathed; Is 't not enough to make one strange, The same things still the self-same way ? 15 20 Others make all their knights, in fits Till drawing blood o' th' dames, like witches, They're forthwith cured of their capriches. Some always thrive in their amours, By pulling plaisters off their sores; As cripples do to get an alms, Just so do they, and win their dames. O' geography, to change their site; 25 Make former times shake hands with latter, 30 I think's sufficient at one time. But we forget in what sad plight 35 Tired with dispute, and speaking Latin, 40 45 To free himself by wit or force, |