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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… because they are not in the saddle, the brats of crooked Hudibras fume, because they cannot crupper the popelins, the …
Old and New London
… band for the neck and shoulders;" whence Butler, in his "Hudibras," styles the collars in the pillory "peccadilloes." …
Report to the Master of the Rolls on Documents in the Archives of Venice
… considered it as such by his frequent allusions in Hudibras. Fifty years after the death of Cervantes, Louis …
Old and New London
… now as it was in the days of the poet Spenser. The 'Irish Hudibras' (1682) thus humorously describes an Irish wake: " …
Old and New London
… a wish "to lie as near as possible to the bones of old Hudibras Butler." He had his desire gratified, for he was …
The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk
… Shakspeare, and Dr. Grey, also, in his notes on Butler's Hudibras; and in these works gave evident proofs, both of his …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Greys, of which family was Dr. Zachary Grey, the editor of Hudibras, whose brother George lived here. The parish …
Survey of London
… over Europe. . . . Cooper was intimate with the author of Hudibras and taught him to paint. His own genius was not …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Russel; the income is about 43. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras, was born here in 1612. Stretford (St. Peter) …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… older, even than Rome itself; for he writes, that one Rud-hudibras, or Lud-hudibras, a king of the Britons, founded this city almost …
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