Capitolo 28
same time, puts him/it the genealogy of True Humour under that the
reader is able to a sight sees their different genealogical trees and
relationships:-
Falsehood.
Nonsense.
Phrensy.--Laughter.
Humour I distort.
Truth.
Good Sense.
Intelligence.--Joy,
Humour.
It is probable that I extend the allegory mentioning a lot some children,
of Humour Falso that it is more in number that the sands of the sea,
and it was able particularly you enumerate the many children and daughters that
he has it produced in this island. But as this would be a very hateful
assignment, I will observe only in general that Humours Falso it differs from
the Truth as a monkey ago from a man.
He is exaggeratedly given before everybody, to the small makeups of apish and
buffooneries.
In according to place, him so a lot of delights in mimicry, that is every one to him
if he exposes from him vice and the folly, luxury and the avarice; or, on
the contrary one, the virtue and the wisdom, the pain and poverty.
In third place, he is marvelously unlucky insomuch that he wants bite the,
hand that feeds him, and endeavour to put in ridiculous friends and hostile,
indifferently. For, having but the small talents, he has to be happy
where he is able, not where he owes.
Fourthly, being reason completely deprived of him doesn't undertake point one
of the morality or education, but it is only laughable in the interest of
being this way.
Fifthly, being incapable of anything but false representations, his
ridicule is always personal, and it aimed to the vicious man or the
writer; not to the vice, or to the writing.
I have only here sharpened to the whole kind of false humorists;
but, as one of my principal sketches in this paper to demolish is
that malignant spirit of which it discovers him in the writings the
present age, I won't have scruples, for the future, to single out some
of the small intelligence as which you/they infest the world with such compositions
it is sick-natured, immoral, and absurd. This is the only exception
what I will do to the general rule I have been barred, of