Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

Extracts from Hudibras: Morning

[From Part II.]

THE SUN had long since in the lap

Of Thetis taken out his nap,

And, like a lobster boiled, the morn

From black to red began to turn.