Hudibras in the burlesque tradition.

B.C. 540.) CROWDE'RO, one of the rabble leaders encountered by Hudibras at a bear-baiting.

In the Great Hall, now roofless, Milton's masque Comus was performed for the first time, and Samuel Butler is said to have written part of Hudibras in a little room over the entrance gateway.

An Author might as well think of weaving the Adventures of Æneas and Hudibras into one Poem, as of writing such a motly Piece of Mirth and Sorrow.