Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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THE ARGUMENT	A
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The Saints engage in fierce Contests	B
About their Carnal interests	C
To share their sacrilegious Preys	D
According to their Rates of Grace	E
Their various Frenzies to reform	F
When Cromwel left them in a Storm	F
Till in th' Effigy of Rumps the Rabble	G
Burns all their Grandees of the Cabal	H
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THE learned write an insect breeze	I
Is but a mungrel prince of bees	I
That falls before a storm on cows	J
And stings the founders of his house	K
From whose corrupted flesh that breed	L
Of vermin did at first proceed	L
So e're the storm of war broke out	M
Religion spawn'd a various rout	M
Of petulant Capricious sects	N
The maggots of corrupted texts	O
That first run all religion down	P
And after ev'ry swarm its own	Q
For as the Persian Magi once	R
Upon their mothers got their sons	S
That were incapable t' enjoy	T
That empire any other way	U
So PRESBYTER begot the other	V
Upon the good old Cause his mother	V
Then bore then like the Devil's dam	W
Whose son and husband are the same	X
And yet no nat'ral tie of blood	Y
Nor int'rest for the common good	Z
Cou'd when their profits interfer'd	A2
Get quarter for each other's beard	A2
For when they thriv'd they never fadg'd	A2
But only by the ears engag'd	A2
Like dogs that snarl about a bone	Q
And play together when they've none	B2
As by their truest characters	C2
Their constant actions plainly appears	D2
Rebellion now began for lack	E2
Of zeal and plunders to grow slack	E2
The Cause and covenant to lessen	B2
And Providence to b' out of season	B2
For now there was no more to purchase	F2
O' th' King's Revenue and the Churches	G2
But all divided shar'd and gone	H2
That us'd to urge the Brethren on	I2
Which forc'd the stubborn'st for the Cause	J2
To cross the cudgels to the laws	K2
That what by breaking them th' had gain'd	A2
By their support might be maintain'd	A2
Like thieves that in a hemp plot lie	L2
Secur'd against the hue and cry	L2
For PRESBYTER and INDEPENDANT	A2
Were now turn'd plaintiff and defendant	A2
Laid out their apostolic functions	S
On carnal orders and injunctions	S
And all their precious Gifts and Graces	M2
On outlawries and scire facias	M2
At Michael's term had many a trial	G
Worse than the Dragon and St Michael	G
Where thousands fell in shape of fees	M2
Into the bottomless abyss	M2
For when like brethren and like friends	M2
They came to share their dividends	M2
And ev'ry partner to possess	M2
His Church and State Joint Purchases	M2
In which the ablest Saint and best	A2
Was nam'd in trust by all the rest	A2
To pay their money and instead	A2
Of ev'ry Brother pass the deed	A2
He strait converted all his gifts	M2
To pious frauds and holy shifts	M2
And settled all the other shares	M2
Upon his outward man and's heirs	M2
Held all they claim'd as forfeit lands	M2
Deliver'd up into his hands	M2
And pass'd upon his conscience	M2
By Pre intail of Providence	M2
Impeach'd the rest for reprobates	M2
That had no titles to estates	M2
But by their spiritual attaints	M2
Degraded from the right of Saints	M2
This b'ing reveal'd they now begun	B2
With law and conscience to fall on	I2
And laid about as hot and brain sick	N2
As th' Utter Barrister of SWANSWICK	N2
Engag'd with moneybags as bold	A2
As men with sand bags did of old	A2
That brought the lawyers in more fees	M2
Than all unsanctify'd Trustees	M2
Till he who had no more to show	O2
I' th' case receiv'd the overthrow	O2
Or both sides having had the worst	A2
They parted as they met at first	A2
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Poor PRESBYTER was now reduc'd	A2
Secluded and cashier'd and chous'd	A2
Turn'd out and excommunicate	A2
From all affairs of Church and State	A2
Reform'd t' a reformado Saint	A2
And glad to turn itinerant	A2
To stroll and teach from town to town	P
And those he had taught up teach down	P
And make those uses serve agen	P
Against the new enlighten'd men	P
As fit as when at first they were	V
Reveal'd against the CAVALIER	P2
Damn ANABAPTIST and FANATIC	N2
As pat as Popish and Prelatic	N2
And with as little variation	P
To serve for any Sect i' th' nation	P
The Good Old Cause which some believe	Q2
To be the Dev'l that tempted EVE	Q2
With Knowledge and does still invite	A2
The world to mischief with new Light	A2
Had store of money in her purse	M2
When he took her for bett'r or worse	M2
But now was grown deform'd and poor	R2
And fit to be turn'd out of door	S2
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The INDEPENDENTS whose first station	P
Was in the rear of reformation	P
A mungrel kind of church dragoons	M2
That serv'd for horse and foot at once	M2
And in the saddle of one steed	A2
The Saracen and Christian rid	A2
Were free of ev'ry spiritual order	V
To preach and fight and pray and murder	V
No sooner got the start to lurch	T2
Both disciplines of War and Church	T2
And Providence enough to run	P
The chief commanders of 'em down	P
But carry'd on the war against	A2
The common enemy o' th' Saints	M2
And in a while prevail'd so far	U2
To win of them the game of war	S2
And be at liberty once more	S2
T' attack themselves as th' had before	S2
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For now there was no foe in arms	M2
T' unite their factions with alarms	M2
But all reduc'd and overcome	V2
Except their worst themselves at home	W2
Wh' had compass'd all they pray'd and swore	S2
And fought and preach'd and plunder'd for	S2
Subdu'd the Nation Church and State	A2
And all things but their laws and hate	A2
But when they came to treat and transact	A2
And share the spoil of all th' had ransackt	A2
To botch up what th' had torn and rent	A2
Religion and the Government	A2
They met no sooner but prepar'd	A2
To pull down all the war had spar'd	A2
Agreed in nothing but t' abolish	X2
Subvert extirpate and demolish	X2
For knaves and fools b'ing near of kin	P
As Dutch Boors are t' a Sooterkin	P
Both parties join'd to do their best	A2
To damn the publick interest	A2
And herded only in consults	M2
To put by one another's bolts	M2
T' out cant the Babylonian labourers	M2
At all their dialects of jabberers	M2
And tug at both ends of the saw	M2
To tear down Government and Law	M2
For as two cheats that play one game	X
Are both defeated of their aim	X
So those who play a game of state	A2
And only cavil in debate	A2
Although there's nothing lost or won	P
The publick bus'ness is undone	P
Which still the longer 'tis in doing	N2
Becomes the surer way to ruin	P
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This when the ROYALISTS perceiv'd	A2
Who to their faith as firmly cleav'd	A2
And own'd the right they had paid down	P
So dearly for the Church and Crown	P
Th' united constanter and sided	A2
The more the more their foes divided	A2
For though out number'd overthrown	P
And by the fate of war run down	P
Their duty never was defeated	A2
Nor from their oaths and faith retreated	A2
For loyalty is still the same	X
Whether it win or lose the game	X
True as the dial to the sun	P
Although it be not shin'd upon	P
But when these brethren in evil	G
Their adversaries and the Devil	G
Began once more to shew them play	U
And hopes at least to have a day	U
They rally'd in parades of woods	M2
And unfrequented solitudes	M2
Conven'd at midnight in out houses	M2
T' appoint new rising rendezvouzes	M2
And with a pertinacy unmatch'd	A2
For new recruits of danger watch'd	A2
No sooner was one blow diverted	A2
But up another party started	A2
And as if nature too in haste	A2
To furnish out supplies as fast	A2
Before her time had turn'd destruction	P
T' a new and numerous production	P
No sooner those were overcome	V2
But up rose others in their room	Y2
That like the Christian faith increast	A2
The more the more they were supprest	A2
Whom neither chains nor transportation	P
Proscription sale or confiscation	P
Nor all the desperate events	M2
Of former try'd experiments	M2
Nor wounds cou'd terrify nor mangling	N2
To leave off loyalty and dangling	N2
Nor death with all his bones affright	A2
From vent'ring to maintain the right	A2
From staking life and fortune down	P
'Gainst all together for the Crown	P
But kept the title of their cause	M2
From forfeiture like claims in laws	M2
And prov'd no prosp'rous usurpation	P
Can ever settle in the nation	P
Until in spight of force and treason	P
They put their loyalty in possession	P
And by their constancy and faith	Z2
Destroy 'd the mighty men of Gath	A3
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Toss'd in a furious hurricane	P
Did OLIVER give up his reign	P
And was believ'd as well by Saints	M2
As mortal men and miscreants	M2
To founder in the Stygian Ferry	B3
Until he was retriev'd by STERRY	B3
Who in a fa	Q2