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- Title:
- Hudibras Catechiz'd (no.9)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Twelve Large Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras
- Date:
- 1726
- Materials & Techniques:
- 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:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "4"
Lettered inside image, lower left: "W. Hogarth Inv. et Sculp:t"; below image, lower center: "Hudibras, | CATECHIZ'D."; lower center: "No sooner was he come t' himself, | But on his Neck a sturdy Elf | Clapp'd in a Trice his Cloven Hoof, | And thus attack'd him with Reproof: | What made thee venture to betray, | And filch the Lady's Heart away? | To Spirit her to Matrimony? -- | That which contracts all Matches, Mony. | Didst thou not love her then.? Speak true: | No more (quoth he) than I love you. | Why didst thou chuse that cursed Sin, | Hypocrisie, to set up in? -- | Because it is the thriving'st Calling, | The only Saints-Bell that rings all in; | What makes a Knave a Child of God | And one of us? --- A Livelyhood. | What's Orthodox and true believing | Against a Conscience? --- A good Living. | What makes Rebelling against Kings | A Good Old Case? --- Administrings. | 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."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Janet and James Sale, Yale BA 1960
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1995.29.54
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4796
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