culiarly intended—And that is, whether the late Name of Rump be significant, proper, and adequate to the present Parliament. I doubt not, but at first Sight it will appear to most Men to be nothing less; but if you please to trust me with your Patience for a few Minutes, I dare undertake to make it appear, not only out of all Antiquity and the Consent of all Ages, but the Testimony of Nature herself, that it is not only the most proper, apt, and significant, but the most honourable Denomination, that could by the Wit of Man be given unto it.
The learned Eben Ezra[1] and Manasseh Ben Israel do write, that there is in the Rump of Man a certain Bone, which they call the Bone Luz; this, they say, is of so immortal and incomprehensible a Nature, that at the Resurrection out of it all the rest of the Bones and Members shall sprout, just as a Plant does out of a Kernel: and is there any thing that
- ↑ The learned Eben Ezra, &c.] Our Author introduced this and several other of the Arguments which follow, into the second Canto of the third Part of his Hudibras, where he describes the Burning of the Rump; but, in my Opinion, not with the Propriety, in which they appear here, as it could not naturally be supposed, that the Statesman, into whose Mouth they are there put, rushing
