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Butler’s Ghost: or Hudibras. The Fourth Part. With Reflections upon these Times …

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First edition of D’Urfey’s sympathetic continuation of Samuel Butler’s burlesque Hudibras, the most celebrated satire of the seventeenth century, published in three parts in 1663-78. The two cantos of Butler’s Ghost follow the progress of Butler’s eponymous Presbyterian Knight from an interrupted suicide attempt, to a joyous engagement to a ‘cunning’ widow, and thence to unhappy cuckoldry, when he discovers his new wife and his friend Stalliano in ‘indecent manner’ on his wedding day.

D’Urfey, playwright and talented songwriter as well as satirist, enjoyed the favour of Charles II, with whom his bawdy romps and songs were a great success.

Wing D 2703; Wither to Prior 355; Pforzheimer 342.

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