Vulgar words in Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) - A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William - Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning (Page 1)
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Addison's criticism of the ballads was scarcely a legitimate object for this kind of attack, but Augustan satire and parody were free and hospitable genres, always ready to entertain more than one kind of "bard and blockhead side by side.