28JAN 1452

THE

POEMS

OF

Samuel Butler.

VOL. II.

Chiswick:

FROM THE PRESS OF C. WHITTINGHAM,

COLLEGE HOUSE.

CONTENTS.

HUDIBRAS.

IN THREE PARTS.

PART III. Canto II..

Canto III

An Heroic Epistle of Hudibras to his Lady..

The Lady's Answer to the Knight..........

Preface to the Elephant in the Moon........................ 115

The Elephant in the Moon...

119

in long verse................................................. 135

A Satire on the Royal Society.

Repartees between Cat and Puss at a Caterwauling, in

the modern heroic way...

152

...

155

To the Hon. Edward Howard, Esq. upon his incompa-

rable Poem of the British Princes.....

159

Palinode to the Hon. Edward Howard, Esq. upon the

same........

161

A Panegyric upon Sir John Denham's Recovery from

his Madness.

164

Upon Critics who judge of modern Plays precisely by

the Rules of the Ancients.

167

Prologue to the Queen of Arragon, acted before the

Duke of York, upon his Birth-day.

170

Epilogue to the same. To the Duchess....

171

Upon Philip Nye's thanksgiving Beard..

172

Satire upon the Weakness and Misery of Man......

upon the licentious Age of Charles II..

Fragments of an intended Second Part of the foregoing

Satire

Upon an hypocritical Nonconformist. A Pindaric Ode, 230

Upon Modern Critics. A Pindaric Ode...

220

239

To the happy Memory of the most renowned Du-Val.

A Pindaric Ode....

243

A Ballad upon the Parliament which deliberated upon

making Oliver a King..........

249

A Ballad, in Two Parts. Conjectured to be on Oliver

Cromwell. Part I.......

251