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A coin rang upon the stone floor, rolled into a distant corner and came to rest, the jester gasped in the shadow of the curtains; and so came silence, broke only by the soft drip, drip of the spilled wine.
He hung a harp about his neck, and showed in every respect as a lewd fellow and a jester.
They had a long array of officers, with princely names; and none was complete without a jester.
It must be some miserable jester who has worded, printed, and placarded this unconscionable decree.
In that house of mirth, brightness, and laughter, he was as a cunning and, at times, hateful jester, feared by the Tahitians, and, indeed, to whites a shadowy skeleton at the feast, a thing of indescribable possibilities.
Even Britt, the bravest jester of them all, succumbed to the prevailing wind when he saw how it blew.
She tore the jester's burden from him, and staggering under its weight, turned to the middle of the room.
The jester nodded his head mockingly.
May it not be an allusion to a ballad or song on Domingo, one of King Henry the Eighth's jesters?
And even yet I hope to cleave the jester through the brain, meet him when I may.
The entire symposium stared at the jester with undisguised amazement.
He had clad himself in jester's garb to feel for the truth.
Yet it was to her as if by that swift look he had spoken, had for the first time made deep and passionate protest against her bitter judgment of him, had as it were shown her in a single flash the human heart beneath the jester's garb.
Of course one of the first acts of the merry jester was to shy the stove lids off into space.
Invariably they had heroes and heroines, good old servants or grandparents, and merry jesters.
Don John laughed, not at the name, for it was familiar to him, but at the mere mention of the person who bore it and who was the King's dwarf jester, Miguel de Antona, commonly known by his classic nickname.
He was not a man, he was a tradition, a thing that had to be where it was from generation to generation; wherever the court had lived a jester lay buried, and often two and three, for they rarely lived an ordinary lifetime.
The jester swung quickly to the table, in his awkward, bow-legged gait, and brought the beaker that stood there.
She had left the dwarf, after frightening him into giving up his search for Dolores, and she was hastening to Don John's rooms to make sure that the jester had not deceived her or been himself deceived in some way she could not understand.
"There is no way out of the magic circle," said the jester inexorably.
Once he appeared to be seriously angry with one Proteus, a professed jester.
On their way they had found the wily jester.
The jester, in triumph, is about to hurl the body into the river, when he hears the Duke singing in the distance.
He is a mighty jester, but, besides, he likes to talk to me about his work; he is one of those men who find a help and stimulus in talking, and so I have been able to follow the conception of the New Accelerator right up from a very early stage.
The dormant instinct of satire leaped to life and the idealist became the jester.
The time was approaching when the humor manufactured by professed jesters would not be appreciated.
He was to the last fond of pleasantry and kept a jester.
He was himself fond of gaiety, invented some musical instruments, and kept professed jesters.
The jesters are also the heralds and marshals of the celebration.
There was a jester standing by, that counterfeited the fool so naturally, that he seemed to be really one.
The fame men give is for the joy they find; Dull is the jester, when the joke's unkind.
No levity, nothing of the jester, no trace of ennui lingered in his manner.
"Because," said the jester, "you have entrusted your money to one you are never likely to see again."
The jester said he had hung me a great while by the arms aloft in the shrouds.
And others nudged with their elbows, chuckling, "It is the Queen's jester."
With him came, besides his court jesters, those of his boon companions whom he liked the best.
The jester then took leave, accepting conditionally an invitation to supper.
He stood forth a veritable clown or jester of bygone days.
At the date of my narrative, professing jesters had not altogether gone out of fashion at court.
Dwarfs were as common at court, in those days, as fools; and many monarchs would have found it difficult to get through their days (days are rather longer at court than elsewhere) without both a jester to laugh with, and a dwarf to laugh at.
Truth to tell, no mask and domino ever afforded such perfect protection as the jingle of my jester's bells.
Well have I said that Dick was as saucy as a lady's page or a king's jester.
Evidently he here means harmless imbeciles, who, indeed, were often used as jesters.
From the hand of the duke's jester had fallen a goblet to the floor.
Replied the jester, touching his breast and drawing from between the folds of his doublet a shining hilt.
"Of a certainty, your wooing was at least novel, Sir Knight of the Vulture's Nest," dryly observed the jester.
Said the jester, as casting the now useless cloak from him, he deliberately scrutinized the rogue.
Certainly, he became an interesting companion, and the French jester sought his company on every occasion.
Silently the jester of the duke wrung his hand.
All eyes were now bent to the arena, where, on a powerful nag, sat perched the misshapen jester.
"Oh," she whispered to herself, "the master now retaliates on the jester."
A second swift glance, and through the veil, less obscure, she saw the jester riding, unharmed, his lance unbroken.
The jester looked at the princess for the answer to these questions; but her face was cold, smiling, unresponsive.
Breathless, exhausted, the free baron marked the conflict now transferred to the turnkey and the jester.
"He is the best jester of us all," he muttered.
Exclaimed the jester, with more anger, it seemed to the girl, than jealousy.
She said, and the jester, bending over the prostrate jailer, detached them from his girdle.
Exclaimed the jester, and they turned their horses into the underbrush.
Was it to reassure herself the jester rode near; that she had not, unattended, entered that forbidding territory?
A glance at the pale face and unnaturally bright eyes of the girl brought the jester, however, to a quick decision.
"I have better medicine than that," retorted the jester, and yawned.
"You submit over-easily to an affront," was her scornful retort, turning upon the jester.
The king was eavesdropping, you say, and yet spared the jester?
Determinedly the jester struggled, the perspiration standing on his brow in beads.
Was it pique that moved her thus to address the duke's jester?
"A jester without a roof to cover him is like a dog without a kennel, mistress."
Intently the jester watched her draw near and ever nearer, their common trysting spot, her favorite garden nook.
I should seek a courtier for my companion, not a jester.
There were two long rows of them, with two comic men and a hunchback, apparently the king's jester.
He had looked the word up, and found that it came from the old idea of the licensed jester who wore a cap and bells with a cock's comb in it, who went about making jests for the amusement of his master and family.
Bands of singers and rustic dancers trooped by, jesters in cap and bells, page boys and trumpeters.
A thousand jesters minister to her amusement, and she pays them handsomely.
The jesters and minstrels did their work.
The specter now wears motley instead of a shroud, and shakes his jester's bells the while he rattles his bones.
Yet is the life of a royal jester beset with great dangers, and the king having once gotten it into his royal head that I was a wizard, it was not long before I again fell into trouble, from which my wit did not a second time in a like way save me.
While this was passing the business of the kitchen, which had been interrupted by the various incidents above related, and especially by the conflict between the two jesters, was hurried forward, and for some time all was bustle and confusion.
The jester nodded at Surrey, and laughed maliciously.
He was but the heart-broken jester now, impulsive, outspoken.
Belle was to be godmother and had to be got down; which was impossible, as the jester Euclid says.
Shaw is an unbalanced person, a licensed jester.
Then the laughter burst forth at this ancient jest coming home so aptly to the modern jester who had unearthed it.
If the Doctor could have seen that smile, he might not have been so well content with his jester comparison; but he could not see it, and he remained convinced that his idea had been a particularly happy one.
You are surprised to hear me, the jester, the court warbler, speak thus.
You talk of farce, I prefer the jester's farce.
The jester stopped before a tent whose splendid appearance denoted the princely rank of its occupant.
With what truth and exquisite feeling he portrays both the king and the peasant, the courtier and the jester!
This he did so successfully that Cato himself exclaimed with a grim smile, "What a jester our consul is!"
And each gave a full and circumstantial account of the manner of the jester being killed.
Asked the princess, wiping her eyes and looking haughtily at the jester.
Marveling at this summons, and wondering what the daughter of their future emperor could have to say to them, now that Saint Monica had decided in the girl's favor, settling the question of her innocence, the young couple followed the jester.
Antoine was singing for her a tinkling melody, and the jester began to sway about in time to the music.
"Since he knows so well how to make gold, I wonder why he is so stingy," whispered the jester to Antoine.
The jester returned to his master, saying as he opened the door, "Cousin Max, you are a sensible man about some things even if you are an emperor, and I want to ask you where a valuable paper should be but in your own writing case?"
If I went about clothed in crape I could not have a sadder effect upon her than I do in my jester's suit.
Exclaimed the jester, considerably dismayed.
The jester wandered to the garden, where he remained for a long time on the seat vacated by the prince.
"I thought I had died and gone to Heaven," said the jester weakly, "but this is only purgatory."
"And I," said the jester, who rode at her side, "should call it a calf in convulsions."
Speaking of this marriage to his mistress, when they had resumed their journey, the jester said, "For a couple who were ready to scratch each other's eyes out before marriage, to be perfectly angelic afterward, is nothing less than a miracle."
She said, after the jester had made his obeisance.