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And have no more our best, or worst Designs,
Because th' are ours, suspected for ill Signs.
T'out-throw, and magnify, and to enlarge
210 Shall, henceforth, be no more laid to our charge;
Nor shall our best and ablest Virtuosos
Prove Arguments again for Coffee-Houses;
Nor little Stories gain Belief among^[1]
Our criticalest Judges right or wrong:
215 Nor shall our new-invented Chariots draw
The Boys to course us in 'em, without Law:
Make Chips of Elms produce the largest Trees,^[2]
Or sowing Saw-dust furnish Nurseries:
No more our heading Darts (a swinging one!)^[3]
220 With Butter only harden'd in the Sun;

1. 213. Nor little Stories gain Belief among] In this latter Part of the Speech, Butler makes a considerable Variation, by adding, omitting, and altering, which it would be both tedious and unnecessary minutely to point out, as the Reader may so easily compare the two Poems.
2. 217. Make Chips of Elmes produce the largest Trees,—Or sowing Saw-dust furnish Nurseries.] There wants here a Grammatical Connection, a Fault not very uncommon in Hudibras, and which cannot have escaped the Notice of critical Readers. The Poet alludes to Sprat's Account of the Relations of Things of Art and Nature communicated to the Royal Society, amongst which is that of Elms growing from Chips.—See Sprat's History, p. 197. The other Circumstance of sowing Saw-dust, &c. is added to heighten the Burlesque.
3. 219, 220, 221, 222. No more our heading Darts (a swinging one!)—With Butter only harden'd in the Sun;—Or Men that use to whistle loud enough—To be heard by others plainly five Miles off.] These two ludicrous Particulars refer to Sprat's History, or rather to

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