HUDI BRAS,

IN THREE PART S.
Written in the Time of

THE LATE WARS:

Corrected and Amended.

WITH

LARGE ANNOTATIONS,

AND A PREFACE.

To this EDITION are added,

CRITICAL, HISTORICAL and EXPLANATORY
NOTE S,

By Way of Supplement, not in any former EDITION.
By ZACHARY GREY, LL.D.

To the Whole is prefixed,

A DISSERTATION upon BURLESQUE POETRY.
By the late LEARNED, and INGENIOUS

MONTAGU BACO N, Esq;

And an APPENDIX;

In which is a TRANSLATION of Part of the Firft CANTO
of the First Book into Latin DOGGRel.

Si quid novifti rectius iftis,

Candidus imperti: Si non, his utere mecum.

Adorned with a new Set of Cuts.

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HUDI BRAS.

The ARGUMENT of

THE THIRD CANTO.

The Knight, with various Doubts possest,
To win the Lady goes in Quest
Of Sidrophel, the Rofy-Crucian,
To know the Deft' nies Refolution;

With whom b'ing met, they both chop Logick,
About the Science Aftrologick;

Till falling from Dispute to Fight,
The Conj'rer's worsted by the Knight.

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OUBTLESS the Pleasure is as great
Of being cheated, as to cheat;

This whole Canto is defign'd to expofe Aftrologers, Fortune-Tellers, and Conjurers. In Banter of whom, Dr James Young, (in his Tract, intitled, Sidrophel Vapulans, &c. 1699. p. 35.) informs us, "That in the Pontificate of fome fuch holy Father as Gregory the "Seventh, a Lover of the Black Art; one of the Tribe craved of "his Holiness, a Protector, or Patron-Saint for Aftrologers, like as "other Arts had: The good Pontiff willing to oblige a Faculty "he lov'd well, gave him the Choice of all in Saint Peter's. The "humble Servant of Urania, depending upon the Direction of good Stars, to a good Angel, went to the choice Hoodwinkt, "and groping among the Images, the firft he laid Hand on was ." that of the Devil in Combat with Saint Michael; had he chofen "with his Eyes open, he could not have met with a better Pro"tector for fo Diabolical an Art."

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"Twas a Custom in Alexandria formerly, for Aftrologers to pay a certain Tribute, which they call'd Fool's Pence, because it was taken from the Gains which Aftrologers made by their own ingenious Folly, and credulous Dotage of their Admirers. [Turki Spy, vol. 8. book 4. chap. 10.] See Judicial Aftrology, exposed by Cervantes, Don Quixote. Vol. 3. chap. 25.

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