Hello, Lighter

I admit 'lampoon' was the wrong verb. But if you read through a collection of ballads, rather than deal with one at a time, you soon realize that their is theme running through almost all of them, and that is theme of what jerks the upper classes are.

Whether they are poisoning their lovers, murdering maidens while on their knightly rambles or knifing in the back the suitor they disapprove of, they are all bad people.

It was rather like Kansans telling anti-Oklahoma jokes, only more bitter.