# Hudibras — Character guide

> Key figures in Hudibras by Samuel Butler.

- [Hudibras](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/hudibras.md): A Presbyterian knight who rides out to reform the world by force and returns, repeatedly, as his own punchline.
- [Ralpho](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/ralpho.md): Hudibras's squire, an Independent sectary whose plain sense and quick disguises keep rescuing his master from the consequences of his own heroics.
- [Sidrophel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/sidrophel.md): A fraudulent astrologer and conjurer who sells Hudibras the supernatural answers he is too vain to doubt.
- [Whachum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/whachum.md): Sidrophel's cunning assistant, a petty schemer who helps turn the astrologer's sham magic into working fraud.
- [Talgol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/talgol.md): A fierce butcher who fights as a champion in the bear-baiting riot and gives the Knight more than he bargained for.
- [Crowdero](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/crowdero.md): A fiddler swept into the bear-baiting fray, whose capture and release become a comic siege in miniature.
- [Orsin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/orsin.md): Orsin belongs to the tavern-and-market world of tradesmen and showmen whose bear-baiting Hudibras disrupts, and his bear is the creature at the brawl's center. Grief for Bruin curdles into blazing wrath: he vows the auth
- [Bruin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/bruin.md): Bruin is the tethered prize of the bear-baiting that Hudibras rides in to break up, and the brawl's fortunes turn on his hide. Wounded and ringed by mastiffs, he refuses to yield, using every trick of a stout and politic
- [Trulla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/trulla.md): Trulla moves among the butchers, tinkers, and bear-ward's allies who make up the anti-Hudibras faction, and Cerdon credits her with saving Bruin from the dogs. Her name means something like a wench or trull, yet she figh
- [Cerdon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/cerdon.md): Cerdon is one of the resolute tradesmen Orsin rallies after the bear-baiting rout, a fighter as ready with a cobbler's pun as with a cudgel. He answers Orsin's fury with practical news, reporting that he and Trulla dragg
- [Magnano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/magnano.md): Magnano numbers among the warriors stout whom Hudibras lately subdued and who now regroup under Orsin's call for vengeance. A tinker by trade, he carries the same combustible mix of injured pride and appetite for payback
- [Cerberus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/cerberus.md): The three-headed dog of myth, referenced as a character in the narrative.
- [Oliver Cromwell](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/oliver_cromwell.md): The Lord Protector, frequently alluded to as a political figure.
- [Muhammad](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/muhammad.md): Prophet of Islam, mentioned in religious satire.
- [Joan of Arc](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/joan_of_arc.md): French heroine and legendary female pope, used in satirical comparisons.
- [Montaigne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/montaigne.md): French essayist, cited in philosophical digressions.
- [King Charles II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/king_charles_ii.md): The restored monarch, referenced in political satire.
- [Adam](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/adam.md): First man in the Bible, mentioned in theological jokes.
- [Cupid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/cupid.md): God of love, referenced in romantic satire.
- [Lob](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/lob.md): A rustic or clownish character, possibly a servant.
- [Eve](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/eve.md): First woman in the Bible, mentioned in theological satire.
- [Sarah Jimmers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hudibras_se/characters/sarah_jimmers.md): A woman mentioned in passing, possibly a local figure.

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