Page:Hudibras - Volume 1 (Butler, Nash, Bohn; 1859).djvu/169

CANTO III.] So did our champion's arms defend All of him but the other end, His head and ears, which in the martial Encounter lost a leathern parcel; For as an Austrian archduke once Had one ear, which in ducatoons Is half the coin, in battle par'd Close to his head, so Bruin far'd; But tugg'd and pull'd on th' other side, Like scriv'ner newly crucify'd; Or like the late-corrected leathern Ears of the circumcised brethren. But gentle Trulla into th' ring He wore in's nose convey'd a string. With which she march'd before, and led The warrior to a grassy bed, As authors write, in a cool shade, Which eglantine and roses made; Close by a softly murm'ring stream, Where lovers use to loll and dream: There leaving him to his repose, Secured from pursuit of foes,