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Here is a step toward characterization, though the result is, of course, at best a type, and often a very wooden type. Still, this method renders the satire on abstract follies a hundred fold more effective than was the method of the medieval satirist, who, like Barclay, took up folly after folly, but inveighed against them in a fashion entirely abstract. This, however, while perhaps Barclay's most characteristic, is not his only method. Here and there in The Ship of Fools, we find the old medi...eval satire on social classes; as in the ICO attack on " Evil Counsellors, Judges and Men of Law " (vol. I, p. 24) ; and a modification of this method in " The Extor- tion of Knights, Great Officers, Men of War, Scribes and Practicers of the Law " (vol. 2, p. 80) — ^where one particular vice is illustrated not by a single individual, but by a whole class — thus uniting the two methods in one portrayal. Neither does Barclay altogether abandon the old way of attacking vices entirely in the abstract, for he arraigns Avar- ice, Covetousness, and Prodigality without illustrative charac- terization or comment (vol.
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