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Samuel(poetButler (1612 – 1680)


English satirical poet.
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Samuel(poetButler
These reasons made his mouth to water.
Butler quotes
He knew what 's what, and that 's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.
Butler
For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen'd to break off
I' th' middle of his speech, or cough,
H' had hard words,ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;
Else, when with greatest art he spoke,
You'd think he talk'd like other folk,
For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.




Friend Ralph, thou hast
Outrun the constable at last.
Each window like a pill'ry appears,
With heads thrust thro' nail'd by the ears.
Samuel(poetButler quotes
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon 't.
Samuel(poetButler
I 'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.
Like feather bed betwixt a wall
And heavy brunt of cannon ball.
Butler
Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?
He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.
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