Maronides, or Virgil Travestie, being a New Paraphrase upon Book V. of Virgil’s Æneids, in Burlesque Verse. By John Phillips. 1672.
The Canto added by Maphœus to Virgil’s Twelve Books of Æneas, from the original Bombastic, done into English Hudibrastic; with Notes beneath, and Latin text in every other page annextx By John Ellis. 1758.
Those who wish to see an almost perfect specimen of a classical parody must turn to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, July 1823, in which they will find
An Idyl on the Battle.
Fists and the man I sing, who, in the valleys of Hampshire
Close to the borough of Andover, one fine day of the springtime,
Being the twentieth of May, (the day moreover was Tuesday,)
Eighteen hundred and twenty-three, in a fistical combat,
Beat, in a handful of rounds, Bill Neat, the Butcher of Bristol.
What is the hero’s name? Indeed, ’tis bootless to mention.