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This gentleman has burlesqued the following eminent authors, by such a close imitation of their turn of verse, that it has not the appearance of a copy, but an original.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

Apropos to Dryden, he has burlesqued his St. Cecilia, that you will never read it again without laughing.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

Shakespeare has burlesqued this idea in his exquisite buffoonery, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. sc.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois