--Epigrammatist--Lucian--Apuleius--Julian
the Apostate--The Misopogon--Symposius' Enigmas--Macrobius--Hierocles
and Philagrius 99

ENGLISH HUMOUR.

CHAPTER I.

MIDDLE AGES.

Relapse of Civilization in the Middle Ages--Stagnation of
Mind--Scarcity of Books--Character of reviving Literature--Religious
Writings--Fantastic Legends--Influence
of the Crusades--Romances--Sir Bevis of Hamptoun--Prominence
of the Lower Animals--Allegories 161

CHAPTER II.

Anglo-Saxon Humour--Rhyme--Satires against the Church--The
Brunellus--Walter Mapes--Goliardi--Piers the
Ploughman--Letters of Obscure Men--Erasmus--The
Praise of Folly--Skelton--The Ship of Fools--Doctour
Doubble Ale--The Sak full of Nuez--Church Ornamentation--Representations
of the Devil 179

CHAPTER III.

Origin of Modern Comedy--Ecclesiastical Buffoonery--Jougleurs
and Minstrels--Court Fools--Monks' Stories--The
"Tournament of Tottenham"--Chaucer--Heywood--Roister
Doister--Gammer Gurton 211

CHAPTER IV.

Robert Greene--Friar Bacon's Demons--The "Looking
Glasse"--Nash and Harvey 231

CHAPTER V.

Donne--Hall--Fuller 243

CHAPTER VI.

Shakespeare--Ben Jonson--Beaumont and Fletcher--The
Wise Men of Gotham 250

CHAPTER VII.

Jesters--Court of Queen Elizabeth--James I.--The
"Counterblasts to Tobacco"--Puritans--Charles II.
--Rochester--Buckingham--Dryden--Butler 271

CHAPTER VIII.

Comic Drama of the Restoration--Etheridge--Wycherley 303

CHAPTER IX.

Tom Brown--His Prose Works--Poetry--Sir Richard
Blackmore--D'Urfey--Female Humorists--Carey 312

CHAPTER X.

Vanbrugh--Colley Cibber--Farquhar 340

CHAPTER XI.

Congreve--Lord Dorset 355

HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR.

PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.

Subjective Character of the Ludicrous--The Subject little
Studied--Obstacles to the Investigation--Evanescence--Mental Character
of the Ludicrous--Distinction bet