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LINES ATTRIBUTED TO HUDIBRAS

By MELANION.

I wish to ask a few questions, referring to these lines, if you do not think the subject already exhausted by Mr. Rimbault's curious and interesting communication. 1. Does not the entire quotation run somewhat thus:— "For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he that is in battle slain Can never hope to fight again"? 2. Are the two last lines in the *Musarum Deliciæ*? 3. May not the idea suggesting the two first lines be traced to some passage in one of the orations of Demosthenes, and, PAST him, to the "[Greek: Anaer ho pheugon kai palin machaesetai]" of some contemp…

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