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Still amorous and fond and billing,
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.
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And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick.
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True as the dial to the sun,
Although it be not shin'd upon.
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And still be doing, never done:
As if Religion were intended
For nothing else but to be mended.
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Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers
Say fools for arguments use wagers.
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He that imposes an oath makes it,
Not he that for convenience takes it;
Then how can any man be said
To break an oath he never made?
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And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull
That's empty when the moon is full;
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
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And poets by their sufferings grow;
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.
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For he could coin, or counterfeit
New words, with little or no wit;
Words so debas'd and hard, no stone
Was hard enough to touch them on;
And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em;
The ignorant for current took 'em;
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Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
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Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun.
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Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?
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The law can take a purse in open court,
Whilst it condemns a less delinquent for't.
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A Babylonish dialect
Which learned pedants much affect.
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For rhyme the rudder is of verses,
With which like ships they steer their courses.
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Samuel Butler
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Born:
February 3, 1612
Died:
September 25, 1680
(aged 68)
Bio:
Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem entitled Hudibras.
Known for:
Hudibras
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