Hudibras

( Lit. ) The title and hero of a celebrated satirical poem written by Samuel Butler, ( q.v.) The hero, II., is a sort of Quixotic adventurer, who sets out, accompanied by Ralpho, his "Sancho Panza," on a crusade against the sports, pastimes, and amusements of the English people, as tabooed and ordered to be suppre ed by Cromwell's Puritan parliament. The work, although tainted with some coarse pa ages, and but little known nowadays except to readers of old English literature, is a wonderful example of biting wit and caustic humor, levelled against the far-fetched religious fanaticism of the period immediately preceding the restoration of Charles II.