any pomp.  He owns that, for the shame of this, the Popes decline going through this street to the Lateran; and that, to avoid the like error, when any Pope is placed in the Porphyry Chair, his genitals are felt by the youngest deacon, through a hole made for that purpose; but he supposes the reason of that to he, to put him in mind that he is a man, and obnoxious to the necessities of nature; whence he will have the seat to be called, Sedes Stercoraria.

1262 y To leave your Vitiligation, &c.] Vitilitigation is a word the Knight was passionately in love with, and never failed to use it upon all occasions; and therefore to omit it, when it fell in the way, bad argued too great a neglect of his learning and parts; though it means no more than a perverse humour of wrangling.

1373 z Mere Disparata, &c.] Disparata are things separate and unlike, from the Latin word Disparo.

PART II

CANTO I

THE ARGUMENT.

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The Knight by damnable Magician,
Being cast illegally in prison,
Love brings his Action on the Case. 
And lays it upon Hudibras. 
How he receives the Lady’s Visit,
And cunningly solicits his Suite,
Which she defers; yet on Parole
Redeems him from th’ inchanted Hole.
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But now, t’observe a romantic method,
Let bloody steel a while be sheathed,
And all those harsh and rugged sounds
Of bastinadoes, cuts, and wounds,
Exchang’d to Love’s more gentle stile, 5
To let our reader breathe a while;
In which, that we may be as brief as
Is possible, by way of preface,
Is’t not enough to make one strange,
That some men’s fancies should ne’er change, 10
But make all people do and say
The same things still the self-same way
Some writers make all ladies purloin’d,
And knights pursuing like a whirlwind
Others make all their knights, in fits 15
Of jealousy, to lose their wits;
Till drawing blood o’th’ dames, like witches,
Th’ are forthwith cur’d of their capriches. 
Some always thrive in their amours
By pulling plaisters off their sores; 20
As cripples do to get an alms,
Just so do they, and win their dames. 
Some force whole regions, in despight
O’ geography, to change their site;
Make former times shake hands with latter, 25
And that which was before, come after. 
But those that write in rhime, still make
The one verse for the other’s sake;
For, one for sense, and one for rhime,
I think’s sufficient at one time. 30