"M.

de Launoy, doctor of theology, had cut Saint Catherine, virgin and martyr, out of his calendar.

He said that her life was a myth, and to show that he placed no faith in it, every year when the feast of the saint came round, he said a Requiem mass.

This curious circumstance I learn from his own telling," _Ibid._, p.

36.] Take Chapelain, for example, whose poem was first published in 1656.
Chapelain is unconsciously burlesque; he is a Scarron without knowing it.