Hudibras
Cited as Hudibras. — 65 quotations
Bang
Many a stiff thwack, many a bang.
Besot
Fools besotted with their crimes.
Black pudding
And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood.
Blue
For his religion . . . 'T was Presbyterian, true blue.
Blur
Sarcasms may eclipse thine own, But can not blur my lost renown.
Buff
And for the good old cause stood buff, 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff.
Clog
As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog.
Come
Then butter does refuse to come.
Comply
He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.
Compound
Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Compounder
Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders.
Contraband
The law severly contrabands Our taking business of men's hands.
Conversion
Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods.
Crazy
Over moist and crazy brains.
Cuerpo
Exposed in cuerpo to their rage.
Cuff
Many a bitter kick and cuff.
Curship
How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship!
Dangle
He'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.
Dump
March slowly on in solemn dump.
Expound
He expounded both his pockets.
Fare
So fared the knight between two foes.
Forge
That paltry story is untrue, And forged to cheat such gulls as you.
Fritter
And cut whole giants into fritters.
Gloss
All this, without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment.
Goggle
And wink and goggle like an owl.
Heave
After many strains and heaves He got up to his saddle eaves.
Itinerant
Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town.
Knotted
They're catched in knotted lawlike nets.
Lurch
But though thou'rt of a different church, I will not leave thee in the lurch.
Nap
I took thee napping, unprepared.
Objective
To write of victories [in or for] next year.
Onslaught
By storm and onslaught to proceed.
Peg
And took your grandees down a peg.
Pique
Though it have the pique, and long, 'Tis still for something in the wrong.
Profligate
The foe is profligate, and run.
Pudding
Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid.
Rap
All they could rap and rend and pilfer.
Rash
If any yet be so foolhardy To expose themselves to vain jeopardy; If they come wounded off, and lame, No honor's got by such a maim.
Riddle
'T was a strange riddle of a lady.
Rudder
For rhyme the rudder is of verses.
Ruffle
Where best He might the ruffled foe infest.
Score
But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score.
shrug
The Spaniards talk in dialogues Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs.
Slur
To slur men of what they fought for.
Squeamish
Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish.
Stickle
Fortune, as she 's wont, turned fickle, And for the foe began to stickle.
Sturdy
This must be done, and I would fain see Mortal so sturdy as to gainsay.
Sway
As bowls run true by being made On purpose false, and to be swayed.
Tamper
Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert.
Tease
Not by the force of carnal reason, But indefatigable teasing.
Thick
Through thick and thin she followed him.
Thwack
With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, Hard crab tree and old iron rang.
Tip
With truncheon tipped with iron head.
Tower
Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
Troll
His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud.
Tug
To ease the pain, His tugged cars suffered with a strain.
Twinge
When a man is past his sense, There's no way to reduce him thence, But twinging him by the ears or nose, Or laying on of heavy blows.
Unsight
For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline.
Venture
A bargain at a venture made.
Vermin
You are my prisoners, base vermin.
Weather
To veer, and tack, and steer a cause Against the weather gauge of laws.
Why-not
When the church Was taken with a why-not in the lurch.
Worth
What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?
Wriggle
Wriggling his body to recover His seat, and cast his right leg over.
Yoke
The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are quickly broke.