{"id":2353,"date":"2018-08-17T17:55:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/60-small-wit\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:55:54","slug":"60-small-wit","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/60-small-wit\/","title":{"raw":"60. <i>Small Wit<\/i>.","rendered":"60. <i>Small Wit<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/121\" target=\"new\">103<\/a><\/span> <p>\"Many there are (says an old writer) that will lose their friend rather than their jest, or their quibble, pun, <i>punnet<\/i> or <i>pundigrion<\/i>, fifteen of which will not make up one single jest.\" Is there any commentator who can explain the <i>punnet<\/i> and <i>pundigrion<\/i>, or must they be enumerated in the next work which shall be written <i>De rebus deperditis?<\/i> The recovery of this lost species of the small currency of wit, would be of signal advantage to our modern dramatists.<\/p>\n<p>What was the <i>clench<\/i>, another favourite figure of wit in old times; but which was <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/122\" target=\"new\">104<\/a><\/span>going out of fashion in the days of the <i>pundigrion?<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\" > <p>'Clenches and quibbles are now out of date,'<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>is a line of Flecknoe's.<\/p>\n<div class=\"poem\"> <p>\u2014Children find, if they endeavour it, <br>\nYour learning, chronicle; clinches your wit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"quote-cite\"> <p><span style=\"font-size: 83%;\"><i>Sir William Davenant<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <i>quip<\/i> seems to be another lost species, and we now hear of no <i>quirks<\/i> but those of pettyfogging lawyers.<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/121\" target=\"new\">103<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many there are (says an old writer) that will lose their friend rather than their jest, or their quibble, pun, <i>punnet<\/i> or <i>pundigrion<\/i>, fifteen of which will not make up one single jest.&#8221; Is there any commentator who can explain the <i>punnet<\/i> and <i>pundigrion<\/i>, or must they be enumerated in the next work which shall be written <i>De rebus deperditis?<\/i> The recovery of this lost species of the small currency of wit, would be of signal advantage to our modern dramatists.<\/p>\n<p>What was the <i>clench<\/i>, another favourite figure of wit in old times; but which was <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/122\" target=\"new\">104<\/a><\/span>going out of fashion in the days of the <i>pundigrion?<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"centered\">\n<p>&#8216;Clenches and quibbles are now out of date,&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>is a line of Flecknoe&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"poem\">\n<p>\u2014Children find, if they endeavour it, <br \/>\nYour learning, chronicle; clinches your wit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"quote-cite\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 83%;\"><i>Sir William Davenant<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <i>quip<\/i> seems to be another lost species, and we now hear of no <i>quirks<\/i> but those of pettyfogging lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":60,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2353","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2353\/revisions\/2354"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2353\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}