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481:. The skimmington procession pelts Hudibras and Ralpho with rotten eggs and attacks their horses; they make their escape, and go to find a pond to get clean in. After a further discussion Ralpho persuades Hudibras to consult the local conjurer, Sidrophel, but Sidrophel and Hudibras argue angrily and at length about what arts are lawful and what arts are unlawful. Exasperated, Sidrophel taunts Hudibras with having been earlier humiliated at Kingston and Brentford Fairs, and claims that it was his own assistant Whackum who stole Hudibras's cloak and picked his pocket. Hudibras points out that Sidrophel is drawing that story from the spurious "Part Two", but nevertheless he sends Ralpho out to fetch a constable to charge Sidrophel with the possession of stolen property. Hudibras knocks Whackum and Sidrophel down and picks their pockets. Believing that they are both dead, Hudibras decides that since Ralpho is disrespectful towards Hudibras's orthodox puritanism, he will leave Ralpho to come back with the constable, find the two bodies, and carry the can for the two deaths.
235:, to combat those whom they consider to be their enemies. Throughout their adventures and humiliations, the third key person of the story, the rich widow whose money Hudibras would dearly like to get his hands on, plays an increasingly important role, and the conclusion of Part III is a lengthy, detailed, and unqualified declaration by the rich widow that men, on the basis of the entire preceding story, are clearly inferior to women. This declaration is notable, in a large-scale popular satire written by an English male author in the seventeenth century, and reminds the reader that Hudibras's most crushing defeats were at the hands of Trulla, the village prostitute (I:iii:757–928, pp. 82–87), and the rich widow herself in the last 382 lines of the last book headed "The Ladies Answer to the Knight" (pp. 310–321).
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895:(1867–1922; Cambridge University Press, 1905). Neither Johnson nor Waller had accurately sorted the textual history, so neither could establish an authoritative text, but at least they both dropped Grey's misleading Church of England- focused obsession, and a good many of his partisan footnotes, so letting Butler tell his story from his own standpoint.
689:.) However, for printers and booksellers, and the general public, in Butler's day the year started, and the number changed, on 1 January. Some editors and commentators have from time to time been confused by the "official" dating of the Mercurius Publicus "Advertisement" and have wrongly thought the first edition was in fact published in 1662.
975:(1893) R. Brimley Johnson published the remark: "...a very voluminous writer, but a sorry imitator of Butler, the notorious Ned Ward, an industrious retailer of ale and scurrility. We shall not meddle with his 'London Spy', a coarse, but tolerably faithful portraiture of London manners, or with his horrible version of 'Don Quixote'."
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and take him to where he can recover from his wounds. The episode is described at heroic length, and the grandeur of the language both conceals and highlights the comic reality: the hero is a performing bear, his attackers are stray dogs, and his rescuers are a prostitute and a shoemaker. (I:iii:25–170; pp. 63–67)
887:(1793; reprinted twice in the nineteenth century); new editions by John Mitford (1835), Robert Bell (1855), and Alfred Milnes (1881–83); and a cheap popular edition of 1871 in the Chandos Classics series. This Chandos Classics edition appears to have stayed securely in print well into the early twentieth century.
879:, wrote that he doubted whether so "execrable a heap of nonsense had ever appeared in any learned language as Grey's commentaries on Hudibras". However, Grey's misleading edition lasted: his text and footnotes were used as the basis of subsequent editions for more than a century, including: that of 1779 to which
685:, published in January 1663, was in fact dated 1662: government documents, both published and unpublished, stuck to the Old Style calendar, in which the year number changed not on 1 January, but on 25 March three months later. (Government documents only changed to New Style dates from 1 January 1753; see
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The history of
Hudibras between 1678 and 1967 is a long history of continuing public popularity, interwoven with textual and editorial confusion. Wilders establishes that it is clear from the text that the 1674 edition of the first two Parts and the 1678 edition of Part Three established Butler's own
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Butler seems to have started writing the satire in the late 1650s. He finished Part One in 1662, and it was licensed for printing by the government licenser, Sir John
Berkenhead, on 11 November 1662. As often happened in that period towards the end of each year, the title-page bears the date 1663 but
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The widow reads
Hudibras's letter, smiles, and writes him a reply that avoids his trap, while spelling out in riotously contemptuous detail how right women are to despise men. Her last words, the very last words of Butler's Third and Last Part, are a strongly-worded statement that men are inferior to
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Presbyterian synod-meeting is the same thing as a bear-baiting: "...put them in a bag, and shake 'em Yourself o' th' sudden would mistake 'em, And not know which is which..." (I:i:833–835; p. 25f), while Hudibras uses elaborate academic terminology to try to prove logically that synod-meetings
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and his family: "No man can oblige a Prince more then hee that kills his father", and "CR came to the Throne by the Right of two Women and therfore has the more Reason to be Kind to Them", and "One
Brother ruind another by forcing Him to marry a Whore and was after ruind himself by whores". (It was
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to suggest that he himself welcomed either the return of the Church of
England or the restoration of the monarchy. In his Commonplace book, recorded by his old friend William Longueville (1639–1721), Butler has a section on "Princes" (fols 70r–72v), where he shows a witty contempt of, amongst others,
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Johnson (1867–1932) was the first editor to start setting a better standard for Hudibras. His edition (1893) begins with a detailed assessment of the textual history. This is followed by a useful 26-page listing of works modelled on Hudibras by other people, up to 1821. Twelve years later
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Butler relishes extremely long-developed images and arguments (too long to quote); an example is the start of Part One Canto Three where the reader encounters an epic battle, described in grand style in 145 lines, between a solitary hero and a crowd of his enemies. Two other heroes come to his aid,
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In Part One Canto One we have elaborately sardonic descriptions of
Hudibras and Ralpho. "Never did trusty Squire with Knight, Or Knight with squier jump more right" (I:i:619f; p. 19). Hudibras is described as a "Mirrour of Knighthood" (I:i:16; p. 1), though we soon find that he even
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University: Clarendon Press, 1967), the editor, John Wilders, assessed all the early editions and chose as his copy text the 1674 edition of Parts One and Two and the 1678 edition of Part Three, these making up, as they do, Butler's approved final text.
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which they agree that they have to prevent, though they disagree about exactly why. They first defeat, and are then defeated by, the townspeople, and in particular by Trulla, the characterful local prostitute, who gains the victory by pushing
Hudibras, the "Mirrour of Knighthood", off his horse,
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Throughout Parts One and Two, the townspeople are elaborately presented as heroes in the grand literary mode. Under their heroic descriptions (Part One Canto Two) they are in fact Crowdero, a fiddler with a wooden leg; Orsin the bear-warden and his Bear, Bruin; Trulla the prostitute; Cerdon the
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Sidrophel, the local Rosicrucian conjurer and astrologer, first appears at the end of Part Two, with his assistant (his "zany"), Whackum. Butler tells the reader in a footnote that Whackum is modelled on the "notorious Ideot" who wrote the spurious "Part Two" (1663; see below) in "abominable
696:, later that year, he teased his readers about this fake "Part Two" by making it one of Sidrophel's lies (II:3:991ff; pp. 180ff).) By the end of 1663 Hudibras had become so popular that there had been five official, licensed, editions of Part One, and four unlicensed pirated editions.
498:, and get hold of her money that way. Hudibras consults a pettifogging lawyer in London, who advises him how to begin by writing the widow a letter that will entrap her into making statements on paper that Hudibras can use to pursue a breach of promise suit against her.
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and subsequently decision to pursue a life in the priesthood. In the extant 1730 letter and memorandum announcing and explaining his conversion to his elder brother, Alexander Cameron quoted a particularly important passage to his own religious development from
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has difficulty mounting, and staying on, his horse. As Butler describes key points of Hudibras's very formal university learning—logic, rhetoric, geometry, algebra, arithmetic and theology—he mocks the trivial and purely verbal uses that Hudibras makes of these:
122:, Butler's main inspiration. Colonel Hudibras' humiliations arrive sometimes by the skills and courage of women, and the epic ends with a witty and detailed declaration by the latest female to get the better of him that women are intellectually superior to men.
707:, with the date 1664; as usual, it was available in the shops some weeks before the end of 1663. Pepys bought a copy on 10 December 1663. He called it "the book now in greatest Fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." (
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the bookseller had already begun selling it late in 1662. The book had such immediate popularity that even before the end of December 1662 at least one pirated edition had appeared, which led the licenser to put a notice in the official government newsletter (
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final and authorised text of all three Parts (Wilders ed. cit, lvii–lviii). However, almost all eighteenth- and nineteenth-century editors produced composite texts, blurring Butler's final intentions with passages that Butler himself had deleted or changed.
1427:"by the omission, whenever possible, of the whole passage in which anything objectionable occurs, no exception being allowed in favour of even such indecent passages as are quoted from Scripture"—quoted from Milnes by John Wilders, ed. cit., p. lxi.
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beating him with a rain of blows, then climbing up and standing on him. Hudibras owns her the victor, and strips off and surrenders his armour and weapons. She mockingly puts her dress onto Hudibras, then locks him and Ralpho in the village
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For Hudibras's squire Ralpho, on the other hand, who is a tailor, these formal academic skills are insignificant, or downright distractions. He guides his life not by philosophical systems but by direct personal inspiration: "Some call it
473:(1664) begins with them debating whether it is permissible for Hudibras to break his oath to the widow, to not give himself a flogging, and then to lie to her. The discussion is interrupted by the approach of a riotous and noisy
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The rich widow is unnamed throughout. Hudibras schemes to get her money, whether by marrying her or by legal trickery. She enjoys leading him on to make a fool of himself, and at the end of Part Three she is clearly the winner.
168:] imaginative work, capable of shocking, enlivening, provoking, and entertaining the reader in a peculiar and distinctive way, vigorously witty and powerful in its invective. It is the ebullient inventiveness of
631:(1590), where "Huddibras" (so spelt by Spenser throughout) is a knight who was more famous for his strength than for his deeds, and who was more foolhardy than wise. Spenser himself picked up the name either from
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which is likely to commend it to the modern reader and which raises it above its historical context. Justice still remains to be done not to Butler the moralist but to Butler the poet."
863:(1688–1766), a passionately anti-puritan Church of England clergyman. Grey added extensive and rambling notes, many of them quite irrelevant, in which he determinedly tried to position
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Parts One and Two "with several additions and annotations" were published together in 1674. "There is every sign that was revised by the poet." (Wilders ed., p. lvi)
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seems to have been regularly in demand in the bookshops for over 150 years. New editions came out dated 1704 and 1712, and another in 1726 that had illustrations by
982:(1718) is written in fluent, well-formed and witty Hudibrastics, in which he pays a thoughtful and detailed tribute to the breadth and depth of Butler's artistry.
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women: she ends her letter, and the entire satire, with a clear statement that she has no intention to "Let men usurp Th'unjust Dominion, / As if they were
655:(ca 1136; first printed in 1508). Unlike Butler and Spenser, neither Geoffrey nor Holinshed gives Hudibras any particular characteristics or activities.
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Ralpho and Hudibras frequently challenge each other in long arguments, mostly about the "true" meanings of words. Ralpho, for example, argues that
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memorably re-established and renewed the Hudibrastic couplet as an important literary resource in much of his satirical verse, from
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Mercurius Publicus, comprising The Sum of all Affairs now in agitation in England, Scotland and Ireland, , Published by Authority
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The Life and Notable Adventures of that Renown'd Knight, Don Quixote De la Mancha. Merrily Translated into Hudibrastick Verse
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than a criticism of antiquated thinking and contemporary morals, and a parody of old-fashioned literary form."
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1185:Butler, Samuel (1979). De Quehen, Hugh (ed.).
1189:. Oxford University Press. pp. 284–289.
1170:Butler, Samuel (1967). Wilders, John (ed.).
1447:Chandos Classics: Frederick Warne & Co.
1414:under "Grey, Zachary" (article dated 2004)
1390:Gibbon, Edward (1896). Murray, John (ed.).
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289:Confute, change hands, and still confute.
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1296:. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 210n1.
565:Those Spider Saints, that hang by Threads
369:Which none see by but those who bear it:
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547:As Ir'n in Greenland, does the touch,
525:And weave fine Cobwebs, fit for skull
377:And leads men into Pools and Ditches,
297:His mouth, but out there flew a Trope
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1492:Cotton, Charles (3 September 1664).
1392:The Autobiographies of Edward Gibbon
1146:Education: A Very Short Introduction
1003:He, perfect Dancer, climbs the Rope,
991:And leave our Subject in the middle;
800:"Call fire and sword and desolation,
579:That triumph'd o're the British Sea;
1462:The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler
1080:Oxford Companion to British History
1015:With Wonder You approve his Slight;
1001:What Others Toils despair to reach.
952:And bounc'd from Pillar unto Post.
875:, editor of Shakespeare, and later
815:For nothing else but to be mended."
752:and one of the main leaders of the
545:That after burns with cold as much,
527:That's empty when the Moon is full;
523:Could twist as tough a Rope of Sand
321:And wisely tell what hour o'th' day
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1538:Alma: Or, the Progress of the Mind
993:As BUTLER did his Bear and Fiddle?
980:Alma: Or, the Progress of the Mind
703:was published just one year after
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593:Not like their ancient way of War,
583:And Lobsters, 'stead of Curasiers,
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1340:(Oxford, 1967), pages xlviii–li).
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1223:. II:ii:17: Longman. p. 186.
1174:. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press.
1007:If after some distinguish'd Leap,
997:When to recede, and where pursue:
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806:Which allways must be carried on,
601:And left all Wars by his example,
599:More bravely eat his Captives up;
553:And when his heat of Fancy's over
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1106:"[untitled book review]"
1013:He rises higher half his Length.
1005:And balances your Fear and Hope:
717:Part Three, which Butler headed
597:But when he went to dine or sup,
385:For Christendome in Dirty pond;
283:He could distinguish, and divide
281:Profoundly skill'd in Analytick.
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1670:Religious parodies and satire
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785:Scottish Episcopal Church
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