With that excellent lady I take a tragical view of the Lumley Letter, conceiving that a man must be blind as a bat, not to see that it was written by the author of Venice Preserved, and this in spite of other celebrated collectors, who find in the same sheet so much that is comical and Hudibrastic.
"The Lumley Autograph"
Susan Fenimore Cooper
The young man at the wheel pursed his lips as if he were going to whistle; then he appeared to comprehend suddenly and went off in another gust of Hudibrastic mirth.
"Stranded in Arcady"
Francis Lynde
But it seems to me that it is only this comparative or commercial value with which the reader has any concern, indicating what amount of commodities any given sum represents, that he may thus know the real worth of that sum; - thus adopting the principle, though conversely stated, of the old Hudibrastic maxim, - "What is worth in anything, But so much money as 't will bring."
"History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas"
Prescott, William Hickling