[248] Ward, op. cit., ii., pp. 399, 400.
[249] The Golden Ass, Bk. III., ch. 55.
[250] Doran, History of Court Fools, pp. 18, 37, 75.
[251] Tyrrell, Latin Poetry, p. 43 ff. The scurrility of the early Greek comedy led to its being discountenanced by Pisistratus. As Prof. P. Gardner remarks, “Tyrants have no sense of humour, and dread ridicule” (Greek Antiquities, p. 666).
[252] Wright, op. cit., p. 44 ff.
[253] Ward, Engl. Dram. Poets, ii., pp. 392–3.
[254] Colley Cibber’s satire “Non-Juror” is said to have brought him a pension and the office of Poet Laureate (Wright, op. cit., chap. xxii.).
[255] George III. was caricatured again and again by Gillray (Wright, op. cit., chap. xxvii.).
[256] This has no doubt arisen in part from the fact that no other single English word expresses directly and clearly the subjective feeling or disposition which lies behind laughter.
[257] George Eliot, Essays, pp. 82, 83.