The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude.
- Date:
- 1732
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The honour of Christ vindicated: or, a hue and cry after the bully, who assaulted Jacob in his solitude. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![their Rohujl Hands do cauf'e : Their Sides and Shoulders are fo fqueezed, that they are covered with black and blue Spots of extravafated Blood; fo eager of Victory they feem to be. Ulysses 'cannot move Ajax, nor throw him down, Ajax alfo is not able to overcome the Re¬ finance of Ulysses. The Spectators begin to be impatient. Then A j a xfpoke ‘Divine Ul ysseSj who are fo induftnous, either lift me up, or I fall lift you-, let us leave the ref to Jupiter. In faying fo, he does lift up Uly s- s e s, who not forgetting his Shifts, jlruck him behind upon the Ham: [took the In-lock.] Ajax falls to the Ground upon his Back, and Ulysses forward upon A j a x * s Breafi : The People are in a great Admiration. The divine Ulysses, who has fo much Experi¬ ence, does in his turn endeavour to lift up Ajax, but he heaves him but little from the Ground, and his Knee bending [under the Bur¬ den] they both fall near to one another, and are covered with Sand, they rofe and were going to wrejlle a third time, when See. In this Order of fVrefling, there’s neither linking nor kicking, but only grafping, heav¬ ing, taking the In, or out-lock, and endea¬ vouring to throw down the Antagonift. I own, that this is no Demonftration that the fame Practice was in ufe in Jacob’s Time 5 but if we confider not only the Anti¬ quity ofHoMER, and that Divines do grant, that he has borrowed from the Cuftoms of v ' m —](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30545353_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
