I’d pronounce him heterodox,
And from out this congregation,
With a solemn commination,
Banish quick the heretic,
Who’ll not sing as Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang:
“Who loves not woman, wine and song,
Remains a fool his whole life long!”
ITALIAN HUMOR
The humorists of Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are few and far between. Carlo Goldoni and Count Carlo Gozzi were both dramatists, the latter also a novelist, whose works show humor, but are not available for quotation.