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- Title:
- Hudibras in Tribulation (no. 6)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Twelve Large Illustrations to Samuel Butler's "Hudibras"
- Date:
- 1726
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 7/8 inches (26.7 × 35.2 cm), Image: 9 3/8 × 13 3/8 inches (23.8 × 34 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered above image, upper right: "6"; below image, lower center: "Hudibras, | in | TRIBULATION."; lower center: "She vow'd She would go see the sight, | And visit the distressed Knight: -- | And 'twas not long before she found | Him, and his Stout Squire, in the Pound, | Both coupled in Enchanted Teather, | By farther Leg behind together: -- | No sooner did the Knight perceive her, | But streight he fell into a Fever, | Inflam'd all over with Disgrace, | To be seen by her in such a place; | Which made him hang his head, & scoul, | And wink, and goggle like an Owl. -- | Oh Heav'n! quoth She, can that be true. | I do begin to fear 'tis you; -- | That Petticoat about your Shoulders | Does not sowell become a Soldier's, | And those uneasie Bruises make | My Heart for Company to ake, -- | Quoth he, that Honour's very squeamish, | That takes a Basting for a Blemish; | Some have been beaten 'till they know | What wood a Cudgel's of by th' Blow; | Some kick'd untill they can feel whither | A Shoe be Spanish or Neat's Leather;"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1995.29.52
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4794
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