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He might have burlesqued Virgil too, from whom I took the image.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

"I am innocent of any such intent as you have ascribed to me, and if people say I have burlesqued Rossetti they say what is not true."

From The Idiot by Bangs, John Kendrick