Hudibras, a satire by Samuel Butler on the Puritans, published in 1663, born of the reaction that set in after the Restoration.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Huddersfield * HudsonHudibras in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
Links here from Chalmers
Butler, Samuel
Byfield, Nicholas
Colwil, Alexander
Duck, Stephen
Grey, Zachary
Habington, William
Harmar, John
Heberden, William
Hogarth, William
Larcher, Peter Henry
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