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96 And th' other mongrel vermin, Ralph, That brav'd us all in his behalf. Thy bear is safe, and out of peril, Tho' lugg'd indeed, and wounded very ill; Myself and Trulla made a shift To help him out at a dead lift; And having brought him bravely off, Have left him where he's safe enough: There let him rest; for if we stay, The slaves may hap to get away. This said, they all engag'd to join Their forces in the same design, And forthwith put themselves, in search Of Hudibras, upon their march: Where leave we them awhile, to tell What the victorious Knight befell; For such, Crowdero being fast In dungeon shut, we left him last. Triumphant laurels seem'd to grow Nowhere so green as on his brow; Laden with Avhich, as well as tir'd With conqu'ring toil, he now retir'd Unto a neighb'ring castle by, To rest his body, and apply Fit med'cines to each glorious bruise He got in fight, reds, blacks, and blues; To mollify th' uneasy pang Of ev'ry honourable bang. Which b'ing by skilful midwife drest, He laid him down to take his rest. But all in vain: he 'ad got a hurt O' th' inside, of a deadlier sort, By Cupid made, who took his stand Upon a widow's jointure-land,