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26ayes fured.

To the Honourable Edward Howard, Esq. upon his

incomparable Poem of the British Princes

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A Palinodie to the Honourable Edward Howard, Esq.

upon his incomparable Poem of the British Princes

A Panegyric upon Sir John Denham's Recovery from

his Madness

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169

On Critics who judge of Modern Plays precisely by the

Rules of the Ancients.

Prologue to the Queen of Arragon, acted before the

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Satire upon the Imperfection and Abuse of Human

Learning. Part I. .

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going Satire

Fragments of an intended Second Part of the fore-

On a Hypocritical Nonconformist

On Modern Critics.

To the Happy Memory of the most renowned Du-Val

A Bailad upon the Parliament which deliberated about

making Oliver Cromwell King

A Ballad, in Two Parts, conjectured to be on Oliver

Cromwell. Part I.

Part II.

Miscellaneous Thoughts

Triplets upon Avarice

Description of Holland

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The saints engage in fierce contests
About their carnal interests,
To share their sacrilegious preys
According to their rates of Grace:
Their various frenzies to reform,
When Cromwell left them in a storm;
Till, in th' effigie of Rumps, the rabble
Burns all their Grandees of the Cabal.

HE learned write an insect breeze
Is but a mongrel prince of bees,
That falls before a storm on cows,
And stings the founders of his house,
From whose corrupted flesh that breed

Of vermin did at first proceed.

So, ere the storm of war broke out,
Religion spawn'd a various rout

Of petulant capricious sects,

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*This canto is entirely independent of the adventures of Hudibras and Ralpho; neither of our heroes make their appearance: other characters are introduced. The Poet skips from the time wherein these adventures happened to Cromwell's death, and from thence to the dissolution of the Rump Parliament.