A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and ArtWright, Thomas
History
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Wright, Thomas
Caricature -- History
"There was here one day an Aristotelian dinner, and doctors,
licenciates, and masters too, were very jovial, and I was
there too, and we drank at the first course three draughts of
Malmsey, ... and then we had six dishes of flesh and chickens
and capons, and one of fish, and as we passed from one dish to
another, we continually drunk wine of Kotzburg and the Rhine,
and ale of Embeck, and Thurgen, and Neuburg. And the masters
were well satisfied, and said that the new masters had acquitted
themselves well and with great honour. Then the masters in their
hilarity began to talk learnedly on great questions, and one
asked whether it were correct to say _magister nostrandus_, or
_noster magistrandus_, for a person fit to be made doctor in
theology.... And immediately Master Warmsemmel, who is a subtle
Scotist, and has been master eighteen years, and was in his time
twice rejected and thrice delayed for the degree of master,
and he went on offering himself, until he was promoted for the
honour of the university, ... spoke, and held that we should say
_noster magistrandus_.... Then Master Andreas Delitsch, who is
very subtle, and half poet, half artist (_i.e._ one who professed
in the faculty of arts), physician, and jurist; and now he
reads ordinarily 'Ovid on the Metamorphoses,' and expounds all
the fables allegorically and literally, and I was his hearer,
because he expounds very fundamentally, and he also reads at home
Quintillian and Juvencus, and he held the opposite to Master
Warmsemmel, and said that we ought to say _magister nostrandus_.
For as there is a difference between _magister noster_ and _noster
magister_, so also there is a difference between _magister
nostrandus_ and _noster magistrandus_; for a doctor in theology
is called _magister noster_, and it is one word, but _noster
magister_ are two words, and it is taken for any master; and he
quoted Horace in support of this. Then the masters much admired
his subtlety, and one drank to him a cup of Neuburg ale. And
he said, 'I will wait, but spare me,' and touched his hat, and
laughed heartily, and drank to Master Warmsemmel, and said,
'There, master, don't think I am an enemy,' and he drank it off at
one draught, and Master Warmsemmel replied to him with a strong
draught. And the masters were all merry till the bell rang for
Vespers."
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