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cousin, Prenez soin de ma couronne, J'aurai soin de ma personae, Lampons! Tampons! " —that is to say, let us drink heavily, and begone dull care. See also:

SCARRON, PAUL (1610-166o)

Scarron speaks of a See also:

WILD, JONATHAN (c. 1682-1725)

wild See also:

TROOP (an adaptation of Fr. troupe, O. Fr. trope; cf. Ital. troppa, troppa; Med. Lat. truppus; the origin is doubtful; suggestions have been made that it represents a German conception of Latin turba, crowd, or is an adaptation of Norw. tarp, flock)

troop, singing leridas and lampons. There is, also, a rare French verb, lamponner, to attack with ridicule, used earlier in the 17th century by See also:

Brantome. In its English See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, lampoon, the word is used by See also:

EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)

Evelyn in 1645, " Here they still See also:

PASTE (O. Fr. paste, modern pate, Late Lat. pasta, whence also in Span., Port. and Ital., from Gr. 1r&vrrl or 1raara, barley porridge, or salted pottage, ir&ao'ety, to sprinkle with salt)

paste up their drolling lampoons and scurrilous papers," and soon after it is a verb,—" suppose we lampooned all the See also:

PRETTY

pretty See also:

WOMEN

women in See also:

TOWN

Town." Both of these forms, the noun and the verb, have been preserved ever since in English, without modification, for violent and reckless See also:

LITERARY

literary censure. Tom See also:

Brown (1663–1704) was a past See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master in the See also:

art of lampooning, and some of his attacks on the celebrities of his See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age have a certain vigour. When See also:

DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

Dryden became a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic, Brown wrote: Traitor to See also:

God and See also:

REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel to thy See also:

PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen, See also:

PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

Priest-ridden Poet, perjured son of See also:

BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben, If ever See also:

thou prove honest, then the nation May modestly believe in See also:

TRANSUBSTANTIATION

transubstantiation. Several of the heroes of the Dunciad, and in particular See also:

John Oldmixon (1673–1742), were charged without unfairness with being professional lampooners.

The coarse diatribes which were published by See also:

Richard See also:

Savage (1697–174,3), mainly against See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady See also:

Macclesfield, were nothing more nor less than lampoons, and the word may with almost equal See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice be employed to describe the coarser and more See also:

PERSONAL

personal portions of the satires of See also:

Churchill. As a See also:

RULE

rule, however, the lampoon possessed no poetical See also:

GRACES, THE, (Gr. X&panes, Lat. Gratiae)

graces, and in its very nature was usually See also:

ANONYMOUS

anonymous. The notorious See also:

ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on Woman (1764) of John Wilkes was a lampoon, and was successfully proceeded against as an obscene See also:

LIBEL

libel. The progress of See also:

CIVILIZATION

civilization and the discipline of the See also:

law made it more and more impossible for private malice to take the form of baseless and scurrilous attack, and the lampoon, in its open shape, died of Public decency in the 18th century. Malice, especially in an anonymous form, and passing in See also:

MANUSCRIPT

manuscript from See also:

hand to hand, has continued, however, to make use of this very unlovely form of literature. It has constantly reappeared at times of See also:

POLITICAL

political disturbance, and the French have seldom failed to exercise their wicked wit upon their unpopular rulers. See also See also:

PASQUINADE

PASQUINADE. (E.

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