pasquil

This humorous pasquil has been generally supposed to have been written by Sir John, as a banter upon himself.

The zeal of the Scottish reformers was at its height, and this zeal found vent in many a pasquil discharged at Popery.

She accepted it jocularly as a “pasquil,” and Knox on his departure was condemned and burned in effigy.

A pasquil on the Commander in Chief, or a tirade against the Government, was sure to be eagerly read and warmly approved of.

One of Pasquil's Jests is "how mad Coomes, when his wife was drowned, sought her against the stream."