HUDIBRAS
IN
THREE PARTS

WRITTEN IN

THE TIME OF THE LATE WARS
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BY SAMUEL BUTLER, ESQ.
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WITH
ANNOTATIONS
AND
AN INDEX
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TO THE READER.


Poeta nascitur non fit, [poets are born, not made] is a sentence
of as great truth as antiquity; it being most certain, that all the
acquired learning imaginable is insufficient to compleat a poet,
without a natural genius and propensity to so noble and sublime
an art. And we may, without offence, observe, that many very
learned men, who have been ambitious to be thought poets,
have only rendered themselves obnoxious to that satyrical
inspiration our Author wittily invokes: