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Then Beltane smiled, and taking out one of his three remaining gold pieces, put it in the jester's hand.
A baron was not content to have only his household dwarf or jester, he must have his household poet too.
No doubt he was a jester, a fool in many senses, though he did not, like Solomon's fool, 'say in his heart' very much.
The jesters observed that they were uncertain as to the way, and did all they could to confuse them.
The jester stayed a little while, to pray for the mute's soul and for the squire's soul and for his own.
His father was a colonel in a cavalry regiment, and an ancestor was a James Turgenev who was one of Peter the Great's jesters.
Come on (the jester shouted), give us a tune upon the pipe, and let me show you how to dance.
Maestro Antonio of Ferrara was a man of very great parts, almost a poet, and as entertaining as a jester, but he was very vicious and sinful.
This suggests that underlying his Hamlet there was a man of action as surely as there was a jester.
Next moment came the sound of a heavy blow, and the jester measured his length on the grass.
There were others in the room, also, who knew something of that same terror, though in a less degree, perhaps because they knew Philip less well than the jester, who was almost always near him.
The wretched jester knew that either would mean his own disgrace and death, and he quivered with agony from head to foot.
The jester did not fully understand, but he yielded, for he could not carry her to Mendoza's apartments by force.
The officer turned away and went towards the King's apartments, leaving the jester in the corner.
The Princess's hands dropped by her sides in sheer amazement, for she saw that the jester was in earnest.
It was too good an opportunity to let slip, though I knew that if successful I should find myself pinned down firmer than ever to my role of jester.
Strange as it may seem, I looked forward with eagerness to the return of this light-hearted jester.
You are very lucky if you happen on a camp jester, one of the sort that sings, shouts, or jokes while on the march.
"The man is a fool," said the king, who now thought that Felix was a jester who had put a trick upon him.
He is something more than a mere jester, however: his humor but flavors, as it were, a serious study of human nature.
He had even then impressed the King as a jester, but Frederick felt nevertheless an infinite respect for the talent of the man.
Nor must we forget to mention Punch, which has been the grand jester of the realm since its origin.
Do you realize when all's said and done, they've asked nothing more of you than simply to put on cap and bells and play the jester awhile for that girl's benefit?
The joke now seemed a sorry one, but the pages consoled themselves with the thought that, after all, death had come to the jester in a welcome guise.
Every one in the villages through which they passed ran after the jester, and pointed and laughed.
At last, he sent them all away, saying he wanted to be alone; but he commanded the jester to stay.
An English jester must always take into account the mental attitude which finds "Gulliver's Travels" "incredible."
And because of this love of laughter, so desperate in a serious nation, English jesters have enjoyed the uneasy privileges of a court fool.
The boy went, and presently returned with a quantity of salt, which he handed to the jester.
The Queen-Mother who had loved a jester better than her royal mate, and the fruit of their shameful alliance, the Princess Marigold, a creature woven of sunshine and sin.
A jester once said, with reason, that "the true faith is always the one which has on its side 'the prince and the executioner.'"
"Orators," he says, "joke with an object, not to appear jesters, but to obtain some advantage."
The jesters had become very quiet; they went about gravely keeping order, for the court was now filled with performers.
To his influence she attributed the insults which the jesters offered her, and she saw in the whole group, but a crowd of willing tools handled by her personal enemy.
His early years brought forth another kind of humor which led to his being appointed jester to the "Morning Post."
"Welcome, brother," said the jester; "do you raise your hat to me because you are no longer emperor?"
It is all very well to use the word "fool" as synonymous with "jester"; but daily experience shows that it is generally the solemn and silent man who is the fool.
Presently up came the Commander's jester or clown, a man whose business it was to make the officers laugh.
Only the jester laughed, and chuckled to himself, as he gathered up the golden guineas from the deck, and slapped his thighs for pleasure as he slipped them into his pockets.
All the heavier because one, dressed in the bizarre attire of jester, had no sword but only a dagger for defense.
It was a crescent in silver, with a scroll beneath it, and as we all stooped down to see, the jester's keen eyes met those of his companion.
His mother, hoping to deter him, consented to his going if he would wear the dress of a common jester.
The wedding jester excelled himself in apt allusions to the friends and relatives who brought up their wedding presents at his merry invitation.
Stephen looked round and saw a man close beside him in what he knew at once to be the garb of a jester.
Ambrose, meanwhile, half distracted about his brother, craved counsel of the jester where to seek him.
The jester had got all the boys round him in the court, and was bidding them keep up a good heart, for their lives were safe, and their mothers would beg them off.
The jester felt that he had committed himself, but at the same time conceived that he was justified in trusting one who had always been the intimate friend and adviser of his master.
Farmers are not much given to humor and the young fellows were clearly pleased to find a jester on the premises.
His companion asked where they were, and the jester answered that in that country the kids had none.
Then the jester said: "By my faith, now that you speak thus, I will tell you that I ate them; I am so old that I ought not to tell lies now."
The fair favorite of the king clapped her hands, but the monarch frowned, not having forgotten that night in Fools' hall when the jester had appointed rogues to offices.
"I suppose," whispered Jacqueline to the duke's fool, when the attention of the company was thus withdrawn from the jester's end of the table, "you think yourself in fine favor now?"
The jester turned from the good-natured guard and quickly walked down the road, which wound gracefully through the valley and lost itself afar in a fringe of woodland.
For answer the jester left the window, stepped to the door, and, opening it, strode into the room.
"That I must have the horse, Nanette," said the duke's jester, standing motionless and firm before the fireplace.
The jester grasped the garment by the sleeves and with some difficulty whipped it from him.
The jester made no move to obey, but, looking down, answered coldly: "The duke, Madam, likes not to have his poor deeds exploited."
"In truth," the jester said carelessly, "Charles builds fortresses, not pleasure palaces; and garrisons them with soldiers, not ladies."
Some emotion, deeper than anger, replaced the savage turmoil of the jester's thoughts, as with a last fixed look at the princess he mechanically suffered himself to be led away.
The jester's swift questioning glance was not lost upon the speaker, who, after a pause, continued.
Only the first abrupt change in the fool's look, a slight one though it was, betrayed the jester to his caller.
If the jester had confidence in the future he would naturally rather remain in the narrow confines of his dark chamber than consider proposals from one whom he believed he would yet overcome.
The jester strove to spring to his feet, but his legs seemed as relaxed as his brain was dazed.
It was only when she had gone the jester suddenly remembered he had forgotten to thank her for what she had done in the past or what she proposed doing on the morrow.
For some time they had pursued their journey silently, when at a turn in the road the horse of the jester shied and started back.
What had her life been, who her friends, that she should thus have chosen a jester as comrade?
"If you have suitable accommodations," answered the jester, reassured by the man's aspect and manner.
Now he permitted the volume to fall, and the jester uttered an exclamation of surprise, as he looked upon those pinched, worn, but well-remembered features.
The girl responded coldly, and, amid a hush from the company, made her way to the stairs, which she slowly mounted, preceded by the lad who had waited upon them, and followed by the jester.
Unlike the chamber assigned to Jacqueline, the door was without key or bolt; a significant fact to the jester, in view of the warning he had received.
At these significant words, knowing that the crucial moment had come, the jester retreated rapidly, and, making his way down the passage, stood in a dark corner near his room.
At the command the creature sprang forward furiously, when the sword of the jester shot out; once, twice!
"I have fled from the keep of the old castle, where I lay charged with heresy," answered the jester, returning the hearty grip.
Gathering the young form gently to him, the jester rode slowly on, and the horse of his companion followed.
Striding to the hut, the jester stepped in, but quickly sprang to one side, and as he did so some creature shot out of the door and disappeared in the gloom.
Into the little town, at the foot of the big house, rode shortly before nightfall the jester and his companion.
"If I mistake not," he went on, addressing the duke's jester, "your horses are at the door."
Without response, the jester inserted the plank between the structure and the middle support.
Back and forth moved the lever in the hands of the jester; the soldier was midway on the bridge, when it sank suddenly to one side.
She continued to survey the graceful figure, well-poised head and handsome features of the jester.
No one had ever before dared to speak to him like that, for Charles had no love for jesters, and kept none in his court.
The jester spoke slowly, but Jacqueline was assured that beneath his deliberate manner surged deep and conflicting emotions; that his calmness was no more than a mask to conceal his pain.
As they fluttered and fell at the jester's feet she regarded him with thoughtful blue eyes.
Around his waist is a red leather belt; a yellow jester's cap with red leather rim, and with bells on the hood, and a red cape with yellow lining completes his dress.
He was accompanied by his principal nobles, carried like himself on the shoulders of their servants, and he was surrounded by dancers and jesters.
He kept us all much amused, and was the life and soul of our party, but at times I caught the old fellow looking very weary and sad, as if he was tired of his office as jester.
Patch was the favorite jester of Henry the Eighth, whose name was used as synonymous with fool.
Yet his smile when amused had a quality of gratitude to the jester, not altogether without pathos.
She was no longer equally qualified to please or to be pleased; her mind was not at unison with shallow jesters, and therefore they could make no harmony.
Are any particulars known respecting him, and where shall I find the best account of the ancient court jesters?
In prose Chesterton is seldom the mere jester; he will always have a moral or two, at the very least, at his fingers' ends, or to be quite exact, at the end of his article.
When the jester "divided his rope in half," it does not follow that he cut it into two parts, each half the original length of the rope.
The jester said: "I had, of a truth, entered every one of the sixteen gardens once, and never more than once."
The king's jester might thus have well overcome all his difficulties and got safely away, as he has told us that he succeeded in doing.
Some jester will say, perhaps, that the child would have grown up and have sinned, but you see he didn't grow up, he was torn to pieces by the dogs, at eight years old.
Even the wretched jester felt the influence of some gracious power, and, kneeling on the floor of his cell, he humbly bowed his head in prayer.
Yet a few hours earlier these same half-drunken jesters had laid the man to rest with decent humanity.
On the night of a great ball at the Duke's palace he was thinking of his latest love, Gilda, the jester's daughter.
As the jester raised his hand to take the dreadful oath to kill, Gilda fell upon her knees beside him.
He is generally described as having been jester to Henry I., and it has been assumed that the nature of his engagement involved a course of life calling for repentance and a pilgrimage.