 I'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp, and basilisk, and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms...  Hudibras - Page 66by Samuel Butler - 1819Full view - About this book
 | 1862 - 520 pages
...carried death — whence the decease of, in round (if not sound) numbers, '.' four thousand concubines." The Prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp, and basilisk, and toad, U hich makes him have so strong a breath, f that — the segvitur may be best omitted. True, 'tis a... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 426 pages
...you can demonstrate plain, You have one equal to your mane, I'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's...and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms Than yours, on any other terms.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 518 pages
...can demonstrate plain, You have one equal to your mane, 75C I'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse The Prince of Cambay's...asp, and basilisk, and toad,* Which makes him have BO strong a breath. 755 Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms Than... | |
 | 1866 - 390 pages
...you can demonstrate plain You have one equal to your mane, 75O I'll be torn piecemeal by a horse Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's...and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath 754 Each night he stinks a queen to death; Yet I shall rather lie in 's arms Than yours on any other... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 544 pages
...demonstrate plain, You have one equal to your mane, 750 I '11 be torn piecemeal by a horse, Ere I "11 take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's...and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms Than yours on any other terms.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 pages
...you can demonstrate plain, You have one equal to your mane, I'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's...and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather lie in's arms Than yours on any other terms.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 pages
...can demonstrate plain, You have one equal to your mane, 750 I'll be torn piecemeal by a horse, Ere I'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's...and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; l Yet I shall rather lie in 's arms Than yours on any other... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1883 - 426 pages
...demonstrate plain, 750 You have one equal to your mane, I 'll be torn piece-meal by a horse, Ere I 'll take you for better or worse. The Prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp, and basilisk, and toad, -55 Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death ; Yet I shall rather... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1922 - 300 pages
...connection, as " affecting the smell powerfully," and he quotes Hudibras, [Part II. canto i, 753-755] : — " The prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp, and basilisk,...and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath," etc. Compare iv. vi. 99 post, " The breath of garlic-eaters," ni 232, " beg their stinking breaths,"... | |
 | Sir Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell - 1903 - 1088 pages
...calcedonie, gotoni. . . ." — Itrl. di Leonardo Ca' Matsrr, m Archivio Stor. Italiano, App. 1674.— " The Prince of Cambay's daily food Is asp and basilisk...and toad, Which makes him have so strong a breath, Each night he stinks a queen to death." Hudibrae, Pt. ii. Canto i. Butlor had evidently read the storioi... | |
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