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Hudibras and Freemasonry
Line 629: The fate of beasts
Above this the poet wrote and struck out:
The madman's fate
I am not sure this trivial variant has been worth commenting; indeed, the whole passage about the activities of the IPH would be quite Hudibrastic had its pedestrian verse been one foot shorter.
Pale Fire, p. 181