There’s a Time for Jest, and a Time for Earnest, and it is a Dangerous
Mistake, not to Distinguish the One from the Other. The Fool’s Conceit
here, had both Clownery, and Ill Nature in’t, for there’s Nothing more
Brutal, or Barbarous, then the Humor of Insulting over the Miserable;
Nothing more Contrary to Humanity, and Common Sense, then this Scandalous
Way of Grinning and Jeering out of Season. But a Childish Conceit does
well enough out of the Mouth of a Foolish Boy; for it is but Congruous,
that Silly People should be pleas’d with Silly Words and Things.