It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras.
Addison.

Burlesque is therefore of two kinds; the first represents mean persons in the accouterments of heroes, the other describes great persons acting and speaking like the basest among the people.
Addison.

The dull burlesque appeared with impudence,
And pleased by novelty in spite of sense.
Dryden.

Who is it that admires, and from the heart is attached to, national representative assemblies, but must turn with horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and abominable perversion of that sacred institute?
Burke.

Syn. -- Mockery; farce; travesty; mimicry.

They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule.
Stillingfleet.