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profefled to envy. Though Hurdis was 

 chofen Profeflbr of Poetry in Oxford con- 

 trary to Pope's precept, 



Let fuch teach others who themfelves excel* 



yet he has given a defcription of the 

 only very terrific Engliih animal, which, 

 when weeded of a long interrupting di- 

 greffion in the middle of it, about a thun- 

 der-ftorm, forms the moft natural portrait 

 of a malicious Bull that can perhaps be 

 found in any of our poets ; thus, 



Tis pleafure to approach, 



And, by the ftrong fence mielded, view fecure 

 Thy terrors, Nature, in the favage Bull. 

 Soon as he marks me, be the tyrant fierce, 

 To earth defcends his head ; hard breathe his lungs 

 Upon the dufiy fod. A fulky leer 

 Gives double horror to the frowning curls 

 That wrap his forehead j and ere long is heard, 

 From the deep cavern of his lordly throat, 

 The growl infufferable. * Tramples then 



* Hire comes in the impertinent thunder ftorm. 



The 



