HUDI BRAS, IN THREE PARTS, Written in the Time of THE LATE WARS: Corrected and Amended. WITH LARGE ANNOTATIONS, AND A PREFACE, BY ZACHARY GREY, LL. D. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed by J. BETTENHAM, for W. Innys, A. Ward, MDCCXLIV. nakies Y-14-30 5 HUDI BRAS The ARGUMENT of The Knight, with various Doubts poffeft, With whom b'ing met, they both chop Logick, Till falling from Difpute to Fight, The Conj'rer's worsted by the Knight. D OUBTLESS the Pleasure is as great This whole Canto is defign'd to expose Aftrologers, Fortune- 66 upon the Direction of good Stars, to a good Angel, went to "the choice Hoodwinkt, and groping among the Images, the "firft he laid Hand on was that of the Devil in Combat with "Saint Michael; had he chofen with his Eyes open, he could 66 not have met with a better Protector for fo Diabolical an Art." 'Twas a Custom in Alexandria formerly, for Aftrologers to pay a certain Tribute, which they call'd Fool's-Pence, because it was taken from the Gains which Aftrologers made by their own ingenious Folly, and credulous Dotage of their Adinirers. [Turkish Spy, vol. 8. book 4. chap. 10.] See Judicial Aftrology, expofed by Cervantes, Don Quixote. Vol. 3. chap. 25. A VOL. II. |