The article focuses on the poem "Hudibras" written by Samuel Butler. The author argues that Butler's work has been overlooked despite being one of the greatest comic poems in the English language. It is noted that the poem has been written in a kind of doggerel tetrameter, designed to comprehend the discontents, resentments, and disappointments of a jaded cavalier elite refusing to march in step with a restoration settlement made in Clarendon's image.