Armed with his ax, the jesting ruffian cried:
“Uncle, what cheer? Is th’ honey to your taste?
Don’t eat too quick; there’s no such need of haste.
The joiner’s coming, and I make no question,
He brings you your dessert, to help digestion.”
Then, deeming ’twas not longer safe to stay,
To Malepartus back he took his way.
Carl Arnold Kortum, a German poet, wrote a long rigmarole of burlesque, called The Jobsiad. This was exceedingly popular and became a German classic. It is dull for the most part, but shows flashes of real drollery.
Contains the copy of a letter, which, among many others, the student Hieronimus did write to his parents:
Dear and Honored Parents,