The History of Court Fools, Volumen 394R. Bentley, 1858 - 389 páginas |
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Página 91 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I ; when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Página 92 - I might say, element ; but the word is over-worn. [Exit. Vio. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool ; And, to do that well, craves a kind of wit : He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time ; And, like the haggard,^ check at every feather That comes before his eye.
Página 130 - Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. Will nothing please thee to wash thy hands in but the font ? or to drink healths in but the church chalice ? And know the whole art is learnt at the first admission, and profane jests will come without calling.
Página 346 - And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Página 131 - ... his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Yet some think their conceits, like mustard, not good except they bite. We read that all those who were born in England the year after the beginning of the great mortality, 1349, wanted their four cheek-teeth.
Página 205 - It is this day ordered by his Majesty, with the advice of the Board, that Archibald Armstrong, the King's fool, for certain scandalous words of a high nature, spoken by him against the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, his grace, and proved to be uttered by him by two witnesses, shall have his coat pulled over his head, and be discharged of the King's service, and banished the court ; for which the Lord Chamberlain of the King's household is prayed and required to give order to be executed.
Página 196 - A gallant man is above ill words: An example we have in the old l•ord of Salisbury, who was a. great wise man. Stone had called some lord about court, fool; the lord complains, and has Stone whipped ; Stone cries, " I might have called my lord of Salisbury fool often enough, before he would have had me whipped.
Página 96 - ... he laughs intemperately at every little occasion, and dances about the house, leaps over tables, outskips men's heads, trips up his companions...
Página 97 - ... at the best, In a thousand pounds of law I find not a single ounce of love ; A blind man killed the parson's cow in shooting at the dove; The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well; The wooer who can flatter most will bear away the belle.
Página 232 - His department became more expensive than ever; the civil list debt accumulated. Why? It was truly from a cause which, though perfectly adequate to the effect, one would not have instantly guessed. It was because the turnspit in the king's kitchen was a member of Parliament!