Excerpt from Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

The Bibliographical Reference, which forms an Appendix, will show the wide range that the humour of this century takes, and this does not exhaust the store by any means. Init I have given, for the use of students, the British Museum Catalogue number of every authority (to save trouble, should they Wish to refer to the books) 3 and, to avoid the multiplicity of footnotes, I have placed against each paragraph a number, by means of Which (on turning to the reference) the work from which it was taken can at once be seen.

Political satire ought to be a work in itself, so that I have but sparingly used it 3 and as religious satire hardly comes within the scope of such a book as this, I have but just glanced at it.

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