Word: sidrophel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting, the Puritan knight Hudibras visits an astrologer named Sidrophel to seek advice on how to win the hand of a wealthy widow (see opposite page). It is clearly a case of one fraud patronizing another, and when Hudibras sees the astrologer's ludicrous array of tools-a stuffed crocodile, a Jacob's staff-he feels duped, and the two men quarrel. In another picture, a bloated effigy of Hudibras is ridden to a fiery stake by people who are finally fed up with Protestant reformers...
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