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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36958	Butler's ghost, or, Hudibras with reflections upon these times.	D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.; Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. Hudibras.	1682 (1682)	Wing D2703; ESTC R22762	38,919	202

Butler's Ghost OR HUDIBRAS The Fourth Part. WITH Reflections upon these Times Iacta est alea. Eras LONDON Printed for Ioseph Hindmarsh at the Black-Bull in Corn-hill over against the Royal-Exchange 1682. A second and a third time too This dog-like Fate has been your due Had not propitious Fortune sway'd And from the danger you convey'd And now upon this slight occasion To make upon your self Invasion Instead of Towns where Plunder lies Take your own Castle by surprize For you your self to act Squire Dun Such Ignominy ne're saw the Sun But pardon if ye are such a Tony To pine for Wormwood Matrimony If like our Lovers in Romances Y' are plagu'd with Dreams and fleeting Fancies When midst the Ioys that Love infuses Phillis ne're gets tho Damon loses And cannot prop the tottering Nation 'Till deeds are done of Generation Dismount your wooden Courser straight Then to Advice incline your Pate And if I do not shew a way To make her your Commands obey If she don't listen to your Fiddle And follow ye as Thread does Needle Nay kiss ye hug ye and Adore ye Within a Week then I 'le hang for ye At this the Knight did silence break First taking th' Cord from off his Neck Well pleas'd to hear that chearful noise Which now he knew was Ralpho's Voice Who as Fate order'd sleeping lay Upon a Bundle of fresh Hay Yet to pursue the Humour on Begun this Counterfeiting Moan Is there ye Powers no Station free No place of Rest for Misery Unlucky Squire had'st thou been gone My business had e're this been done And I throng'd with Seraphick Loves In Sacred and Immortal Groves For Heavens sake quoth the Squire Sir Knight Once in your life-time be in th' right And let me though perhaps unsit To sight your battels teach you Wit He that admires you Azure Skies And longs to taste Eternal Ioys E're Nature half his thread has Wove Is like that Niggardly damn'd Oaf That having Gold and Iewels store Leapt into th' Sea to dive for more And so like Esop's Dog was crost Who snatching shadows substance lost Besides I fear he that should scan Your inward and your outward Man Examine your offences Rife And weigh the Actions of your life Would find you are for all your Iokes Unfit for Heaven as other folks But from the Brethren I believe You learnt this Custom to deceive Who to be thought devoutly given Do always wish themselves in Heaven When for all the Saints and Angels there They had rather be with Sister here And only use that Canting Notion As proper to their feign'd Devotion There is a Tale whose Moral 's good Of an Old man that gathering Wood Grown sick with Age and out of breath Sat down upon 't and wisht for Death Death straight appearing cry'd I 'me here And come to end thy Mortal Care He seeing Monsieur Bloody-bone And that there was no way but one Shaking through fear now ten times more Than e're he did for Age before Cry'd Sir your Help I only lack To lift my Wood upon my back Friend quoth the Knight this simile Though good can ne're allude to me And thou these Figures dost Commence Only to cloak thy Ragged sence Else why this Story in this place Whose purport's nothing to my Case At least so little that I doubt I 've hardly brains to find it out Like bellowing Fryer that when he preaches Religion in cramp Latin teaches And mouths it with conceited Passion T' amuse the Ignorant Congregation With Rhetorick and specious Stories Fine Shams and pleasing Allegories Roves wide and schools the Female Sex 'Till he has quite forgot his Text. So hast thou rang'd about to bring A Tale that 's nothing to the thing Yet in the Banter made more flaws Than Lawyers when they thrash a Cause For when did I exclaim for Death For being old or out of breath For Sickness sake make such a motion Or case of Conscience or Devotion Is not Despair in Loves Intrego Of greater moment than an Ague Or can the Tooth-ach e're compare With th' Heart-ach for a wealthy Fair And tho I should from Beam turn over And show Example of true Lover Yet for a less cause so to dye I think there 's little reason why Quoth Ralph You have much cause to know When it is fit to dye and how Yet those that saw you in that place Would guess y' had very little Grace But for that a valiant Knight should swing Take Pet and dye like Dog in string For Widow a stanch cunning Dame Not to be got by Love but Sham That likes not those that most admire her But those that at her own tricks tire her Like Salmons that with Line and Hook Are wearied first and then are took That he in Death his Love should quench When I can help him to the Wench Nay all her Wards and Passes break Or else I 'le forfeit here my Neck Must be th' Effect of Melancholy Or brainless Presbyterian Folly Quoth Hudibras Now by my Sword Bold Squire I take thee at thy word Thy Thesis here I do insist on And therefore now take care that 't is done For shouldst thou fail I swear by Mars By th' Moon and my propitious Stars Nay by my now expected Marriage Thy Head shall answer the miscarriage Hold hold quoth Ralpho good Sir Knight First let us settle all things right My Head 's not such a thing of no worth 'T is to be sham'd away and so forth And by a threatning be effected Like his that the Black Box expected There 's yet to be a small Harangue A word or two before I hang And tho I promis'd you her Heart 'T was not except you did your part I like a Tool do idle stand Without the Workman's helping hand For as a Christian Merchant drew And seal'd a Bond once to a Iew A Pound of Flesh should th' Forfeit pay If he did fail and break his Day Which happening and th' Infidel To weigh the Flesh had fetcht a Scale The Merchant cries your Bond is good For Flesh but not one drop of Blood If thou spill'st that thou murder'st me And then the Law takes hold on thee So tho this friendly Oath I made I did not say without your Aid A Pound of Flesh I gave 't is true But the Life Blood still lies in you You must the Matrimony teach her Tho I perform the Pimp to fetch her And do your best to make her joyn Or else your Head 's as due as mine But if you 'l calmly take advice And be by my Example wise Aiding the trick with best endeavour I once more promise you shall have her Take there my Hand quoth Hudibras Descending with an awker'd Grace My Hand the Earnest of my Heart That I 'le not fail to do my part And tho our last Efforts were vain For all the Wisdom of thy Brain Yet I have now especial hope Thou 'lt do 't for fear of fatal Rope

The sickly Moon grew pale and wan To think that she must lose her Reign And every Planet did prepare To usher in the Morning Star The Drowzy Carrier packs his Horses To travel on their Journal Courses And the watchfull Grizl'd Husbandman Calls up his men to plough his Land When Hudibras with grief opprest Tumbling on Couch could take no rest But mourns in Tears his late Miscarriage And curses Fatal Love and Marriage FINIS Books Printed for and sold by Joseph Hindmarsh at the Black Bull in Cornhil over against the Royal Exchange THe History of the Civil Wars of France Written in Italian by H. C. D' Avila translated out of the Original The Second Impression whereunto is added a Table Reliquiae Raleighanae being Discourses and Sermons on several subjects By the Reverend Dr. Walter Raleigh Dean of Wells and Chaplain in Ordinary to his late Majesty King Charles the First Sermons upon Faith and Providence and other Subjects By the late Reverend William Outram D. D. Prebend of Westminster and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty Loyalty and Peace or two seasonable Discourses from 1 Sam. 24.5 viz. David's Heart smote him because he cut of Saul ●s Skirts The first of Conscience and its Smiting The second of the prodigious impiety of Murthering King Charles the First Intended to promote sincere Devotion and Humiliation upon each Anniversary Fast for the late Kings Death The good Old Way or a Discourse offered to all true hearted Protestants concerning the Ancient Way of the Church and the Conformity of the Church of England thereunto as to its Government Manner of Worship Rites and Customs By Edward Pelling Rector of St. Martin Ludgate and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Somerset An impartial account of the Arraignment Tryal and Condemnation of Thomas late Earl of Strafford and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland before the Parliament at Westminster Anno Dom. 1641. The Loyal Citizen revived A Speech made by Alderman Garraway at a Common Hall on Thursday the 17th of Ianuary 1642. upon occasion of a Speech delivered there the Friday before by Mr. Pym at the reading of his Majesties answer to the late Petition The unfortunate Heroes or the Adventures of ten Famous men viz. Ovid Lentulus Hortensius Herennius Cepion Horace Virgil Cornelius Galus Crassus Agrippa Banished from the Court of Augustus Caesar. In ten Novels Composed by that great Wit of France Monsieur de Villa Dieu Englished by a Gentleman for his diversion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or King Iames's Instructions to his Dearest Son Henry the Prince now reprinted by his Majesties Command The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth or the fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus as it is acted at the Theater Royal by N. Tate The London Cuckolds a Comedy as it is acted at the Dukes Theater By E. Rrvenscrot Gen. Sir Barnaby Whig or not Wit like a Womans a Comedy As it acted by their Majesties Servants at the Theater Royal By T. Durfey Gen. A short account or state of Mr. Sheridan's case before the late House of Commons in a letter to T. I. The Progress of honesty or a view of a Court and City a Pindarique Poem by T. Durfey Gent. Mercurius Menippeus the loyal Satyrest or Hudibras in prose written by an unknown Hand in the time of the late Rebellion but never till now Published Satyrs upon the Iesuits Some new pieces never before printed by the author of the Satyrs against Iesuits The Poets complaint of his Muse or a Satyr against Libells a Poem by Thomas Otway An exact Joarnal of the siege of Tangier from the first setting down of the Moors before it on March the 25th 1681. to the late Truce May the 26th following in three Letters written by three eye witnesses of the whole transaction A discourse touching Tangier on these Heads 1. The service Tangier has already rendred the Crown 2. What service it may render if improved 3. The mischief it may do us if possest by any other powerfull Prince 4. some general observations touching Trade A-la-mode Plebotomy no good fashion or the copy of a Letter to Dr Hungerford by Richard Griffith of Richmond in Surrey M. D. FINIS * Corn-cutter