Sentence:  Poets like <WSD>Cudgel'd</WSD> Bullys, never do / At firſt, or ſecond blow, ſubmit to you; / But will provoke you ſtill and ne're have done, / Till you are weary ſirst, with laying on: [...] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To strike with a cudgel.