Studies in jocular literature : A popular subject more closely considered / by W. Carew Hazlitt.

  • Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Studies in jocular literature : A popular subject more closely considered / by W. Carew Hazlitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to which Scogin is supposed to have resorted, was a scene of coarse simplicity and no model of decorum; and so late down as the reign of George II. the great ladies permitted themselves a licence in speech, which prevented the editor of Malonianct from printing the whole of the MS. But so far as the latter circum- stance goes, these were mostly passages inter se (so to speak); and it remains incredible, that some of the adventures with which Scogin is reported to have met within the very precincts of the palace, can have actually happened under the eyes of the queen and her attendants. Dr. Borde, I apprehend in fact, has committed the impropriety of transferring to another age the manners of his own, which was so far venial enough, and consonant with dramatic usage; but he has most unwarrantably taken some of his characters from a sphere of life in which the enactment of such low pranks would hardly have been suffered. To cast aspersions on the representatives of an extinct dynasty, however, was a tolerably safe game. The Jests of Scogin