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Again, the main secret of its success is the strain of pungent satire, especially in the Renardine Cycle, which the people could apply to all unpopular "lordes and prelates, gostly and worldly."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir