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and Grotcfque
of Caricature
good and high-flavoured wine, while nothing but inferior Huff was
ufually given to the convent; "But," he fays, "it is better to
go drink good wine at the tavern, where the wines are of the beii
quality, and money is the butler."
B07110?! winum rum fapare
Bibit abbas cum priore ;
Sad can-vemu: dz pejore
femperfalet bibere.
Banum 'vinum in taberna,
Ubi vinafunt valarna (for Falerna),
Ulzi nummu: gfi pincerna,
[bi prod.-f lzibere.
Partly out of the earneft, though playful, fatire defcribed in this chapter,
arofe political fatire, and at a later period political caricature. I have
before remarked that the period we call the middle ages was not that of
political or perfonal caricature, becaufe it wanted that means of circulating
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quickly and largely which is neceilhry for it. Yet, no doubt, men who
could draw, did, in the middle ages, fometimes amufe themfelves in
iketching caricatures, which, in general, have perifhed, becaufe nobody
cared to preferve them; but the fad of the exilience of fuch Works is
proved