...The manner how he sally'd forth ; His arms and equipage are shown ; His horse's virtues and his own. When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out...jealousies and fears, Set folks together by the ears, When gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,...

...more so than at the present day]; not even when '• Hard words, 'lealousies,' and 'fears' Set men together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk." We are ruled by words. A word eonelndes us mueh sooner than an argument. Nay, it preelndes all argumentation....

...faithful and obedient Servant, JONAS DRYASDUST. Michaelmas Day, 1822, YORK. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK CHAPTER I When civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When foul words, jealousies, and fears Set folk together by the ears. BcTtEI. WILLIAM, the Conqueror of...

...que condense Voltaire, pour qu'on se rende compte de sa méthode de traduction. When civil fury 6rsl grew high And men fell out they knew not why, When...Words, Jealousies and Fears Set folks together by thé cars, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk, Whose honesty they...

...his own: Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. WHEN civil fury 5 For Dame Religion as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew...

...the baneful effects of such a scourge, when, as the author of Hudibras truly remarked :— " . . . . civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ;" and that there should not have been found some in the Island so dissatisfied as to be ready to join...

...subjected in the opening lines of Hudibras to this levelling and diminishing process : When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why;...them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk — We know at once where we are ; and for the rest of this long poem we continue to have...

...recalling the opening verses, which were so often echoed by later works in the genre: When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why,...them fight like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion as for Punk, Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter...

...my lad. (1. 1-4) OxBoLi Burns POETRY QUOTATIONS SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680) Hudibras \ When civil fury owl, howl! O, you are men of stones! Had I your tongues...know when one is dead and when one lives; She's d for punk; 2 For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd...

...Butler similarly begins his extremely popular poem Hudibras (1663) with the lines "When civil fury first grew high, / And men fell out they knew not why; / When hard words, Jealousies and Fears I Set Folks together by the ears . . ."2i Clarendon writes in The History of the Rebellion that terms...