22. ‘A BANQUET OF JESTS’ ON THE NEGLECT OF SKELTON

1639


From ‘A Banquet of Jests’, ‘5th impression’ (1639) (STC 1370). This work is a collection of prose jests. The lines below come from the prefatory Printer to the Reader, A 5v. They do not occur in the first edition of the work in 1630.


The coorser Cates, that might the feast disgrace,
Left out: And better serv'd in, in their place
Pasquel's conceits are poore, and Scoggins (1) dry.
Skeltons meere rime, once read, but now laid by.

Note

1 ‘Pasquil’ and ‘Scogan’ were by this time names typifying vulgar, satiric verse.