Ebenezer Cooke's poem "The Sot-Weed Factor" is written in imitation of this poem's style.
Ebenezer Cooke's poem "The Sot-Weed Factor" is written in imitation of this poem's style. William Hogarth's illustrations of this poem include a print depicting "the burning of the rumps" and a print showing its main character vanquished by Trulla. This poem's main character visits the astrologer Sidrophel, and promises to flagellate himself if a widow frees him from the stocks. The source of the line "spare the rod and spoil the child," this poem begins with its main character breaking up a group of bear-baiters. Set in a time "When civil dudgeon first grew high / And men fell out they knew not why," it is divided into three cantos written in a namesake style of witty iambic tetrameter couplets. It satirizes the Roundheads, and follows the title character as he goes "a kernelling" with his squire Ralpho. For 10 points, name this mock epic about a Presbyterian knight written by Samuel Butler.
Ebenezer Cooke's poem "The Sot-Weed Factor" is written in imitation of this poem's style.
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