Sermon joyeux
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Sermon joyeux is the French term for a burlesque sermon.
- most characteristic of these was tliat left by the 'sermons joyeux ', those ridiculous medleys of mock-pious exhortations, learned allusions and scurrility, full of dog- Latin and religious tags, which, originating in the mock services of the Feast of Fools, later played a prominent part in the performances of the Fool Societies, jwho delighted to parody both the religious sermon and the rhetorical disquisition of the schools. Of the formal ' sermon joyeux ' there arc but two examples in the English drama — that delivered by Folly at the close of the ' Satire of the Three Estaits ', describing various classes of fools, and the discourse of Herod's fool in Archi-Propheta, - based nominally on the opening verses of Genesis, but in reality consisting of a disquisition on folly and satire of society, particularly women. It concludes :
- Quid est Patriarchus ? Patriarchus. Et quid est
- Morio ? morio. Quid foemina ? quid ? nisi fatua.
- Et spiritus Domini motus per aquas fuit.
- But the 'sermons joyeux' had a wider influence than this, as will be shown laten Ciude and coarse as these effusio
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