pasquils

Some abuse their parents, yea corrupt their own sisters; others make long libels and pasquils, defaming men of good life, and extol such as are lewd and vicious.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Others were equally pernicious because they were perceived as seditious, ballads and pasquils (or satires) critical of the political and religious establishments.

Them and Us 2002

You shall many times finde in his Gazettas, pasquils, and corrantos miserable distractions; here a city taken by force long before it bee besieged; there a countrey laid waste before ever the enemie entered.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

He was the subject of many anonymous pasquils and libels, we know, but he entirely disregarded them.

John Knox and the Reformation Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 1905

He was the subject of many anonymous pasquils and libels, we know, but he entirely disregarded them.

John Knox and the Reformation Andrew Lang 1878

And in another excellent place he says: 'Many who have leisure and parts to read much, instead of ballasting their hearts with divine truth, and building up their souls with its precious words, are much more versed in play-books, jeering pasquils, romances, and feigned staves, which are but apes and peacocks' feathers instead of pearls and precious stones.

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878

The authors and the actors of their comedies, poems, and pasquils were mostly artisans or tradesmen, belonging to the class out of which proceeded the early victims, and the later soldiers of the

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

Meanwhile the pamphlets, handbills, pasquils, and other popular productions were multiplied.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

Meanwhile the pamphlets, handbills, pasquils, and other popular productions were multiplied.

The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

Waartgelders and the State rights, and the villainous pasquils and libels that had circulated so long through the country.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845