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Part ii

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But Hudibras gave him a twitch As quick as lightning in the breech, Just in the place where honour 's lodg'd, As wise philosophers have judg'd; Because a kick in that part more Hurts honour than deep wounds before.

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As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon 't.

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Still amorous and fond and billing, Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more.

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'Cause grace and virtue are within Prohibited degrees of kin; And therefore no true saint allows They shall be suffer'd to espouse.

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Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, Though he gave his name to our Old Nick.

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With crosses, relics, crucifixes, Beads, pictures, rosaries, and pixes,-- The tools of working our salvation By mere mechanic operation.

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True as the dial to the sun,[215-1] Although it be not shin'd upon.

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But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease.

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For those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that 's slain.[215-2]

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He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still.

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With books and money plac'd for show Like nest-eggs to make clients lay, And for his false opinion pay.

_Hudibras.