making you understand, the title whereof is "Hudibras." The subject

of it is the Civil War in the time of the grand rebellion, and the

principles and practice of the Puritans are therein ridiculed. It

is Don Quixote, it is our "Satire Menippee" blended together. I

never found so much wit in one single book as in that, which at the

same time is the most difficult to be translated. Who would believe

that a work which paints in such lively and natural colours the

several foibles and follies of mankind, and where we meet with more