Quoth Hudibras, I do believe
That argument’s demonstrative. 
Ralpho, bear witness; and go fetch us 1015
A constable to seize the wretches
For though th’ are both false knaves and cheats,
Impostors, jugglers, counterfeits,
I’ll make them serve for perpendiculars
As true as e’er were us’d by bricklayers. 1020
They’re guilty, by their own confessions,
Of felony, and at the sessions,
Upon the bench, I will so handle ’em,
That the vibration of this pendulum
Shalt make all taylors yards of one 1025
Unanimous opinion,
A thing he long has vapour’d of,
But now shall wake it out of proof.

Quoth Sidrophel, I do not doubt
To find friends that will bear me out, 1030
Nor have I hazarded my art,
And neck, so long on the state’s part,
To be expos’d i’ th’ end to suffer
By such a braggadocio huffer.

Huffer! quoth Hudibras:  this sword 1035
Shall down thy false throat craw that word. 
Ralpho, make haste, and call an officer,
To apprehend this Stygian sophister,
Meanwhile I’ll hold ’em at a bay,
Lest he and Whachum run away. 1040

But Sidrophel who, from the aspect
Of Hudibras did now erect
A figure worse portenting far
Than that of a malignant star,
Believ’d it now the fittest moment 1045
To shun the danger that might come on’t,
While Hudibras was all alone,
And he and Whachum, two to one. 
This being resolv’d, he spy’d, by chance,
Behind the door, an iron lance, 1050
That many a sturdy limb had gor’d,
And legs, and loins, and shoulders bor’d: 
He snatch’d it up, and made a pass,
To make his way through Hudibras. 
Whachum had got a fire-fork, 1055
With which he vow’d to do his work. 
But Hudibras was well prepar’d,
And stoutly stood upon his guard: 
He put by SIDROPHELLO’S thrust,
And in right manfully he rusht; l060
The weapon from his gripe he wrung,
And laid him on the earth along. 
Whachum his sea-coal prong threw by,
And basely turn’d his back to fly
But Hudibras gave him a twitch 1065
As quick as light’ning in the breech,
Just in the place where honour’s lodg’d,
As wise philosophers have judg’d;
Because a kick in that place more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before. 1070