Homer Alamode, The Second Part, In English Burlesque Or, a Mock-Poem upon the Ninth Book of Iliads. Invented for the Meridian of Cambridge, where the Pole of Wit is elevated by several degrees |
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THE Prefashion.
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THE Prefashion.
Ulysses you must understand
Sailing by Water, not by Land,
From a fair Lady call'd Calipsie,
Which in plain English was a Gypsie;
Sailing, I say, was on a sudden
Snatch'd from the very Helm he stood in,
By his Foe Neptune's Serjeant-Tritons;
Into whose hands when he did light once,
He was so dows'd and sows'd and beaten,
He look'd like one that had been eaten;
Because they did not him empannel,
But duckt him like a Water-Spaniel.
That being tost about i'th' Ocean
Some eight and forty hours motion,
Sea-sick and naked, he was cast
On the Phœnician Land at last.
Here one Alcinous reign'd, whose Scepter
And Crown, and Robes and Court was kept here.
Imagine now our man of Fame
In this King's house; but how he came
Thither, in troth you may go look,
For I'll not tell you in this Book:
But only how, when once they'd din'd,
The King and Queen had both a mind
To hear his story, and condition,
E'r since Troy taken by the Grecian.
And hereupon our Knight Ulysses
'Gan story in such form as this is—
But hold, I'll give you first the sum,
Then to the Speech it self I'll come.
Sailing by Water, not by Land,
From a fair Lady call'd Calipsie,
Which in plain English was a Gypsie;
Sailing, I say, was on a sudden
Snatch'd from the very Helm he stood in,
By his Foe Neptune's Serjeant-Tritons;
Into whose hands when he did light once,
He was so dows'd and sows'd and beaten,
He look'd like one that had been eaten;
Because they did not him empannel,
But duckt him like a Water-Spaniel.
That being tost about i'th' Ocean
Some eight and forty hours motion,
Sea-sick and naked, he was cast
On the Phœnician Land at last.
And Crown, and Robes and Court was kept here.
Imagine now our man of Fame
In this King's house; but how he came
Thither, in troth you may go look,
For I'll not tell you in this Book:
But only how, when once they'd din'd,
The King and Queen had both a mind
To hear his story, and condition,
E'r since Troy taken by the Grecian.
And hereupon our Knight Ulysses
'Gan story in such form as this is—
But hold, I'll give you first the sum,
Then to the Speech it self I'll come.
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