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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Suppose your honor says you are going as your honor would say Bo! to a goose, plump, short, and to the point," said Wamba the Jester who was Sir Wilfrid's chief counsellor and attendant "depend on't her Highness would bear the news like a Christian woman." "Tush, malapert! I will give thee the strap," said Sir Wilfrid, in a fine tone of high-tragedy indignation.
"Never was such a sight," said Jester Randall, who had taken care to secure a view, and who had come with his report to the Dragon court. "It might have been Ash Wednesday for the look of them, when they landed and got into order. One would think every prentice lad had got at least three mothers, and four or five aunts and sisters!
The jest seemed at last worn threadbare, and the pardoner was passing on to some new pleasantry, when the jester or clown of the drama, possessing himself secretly of the phial which contained the wondrous liquor, applied it suddenly to the nose of a young woman, who, with her black silk muffler, or screen drawn over her face, was sitting in the foremost rank of the spectators, intent apparently upon the business of the stage.
And yet though the short cloak and the leather wallet were no more, he was a true gleeman, being alike poet, jester, and newsman of the people.
"I am ready," answered Athelstane, "to stand the worst of their malice, and shall walk to my death with as much composure as ever I did to my dinner." "Let us then unto our holy gear, father," said Cedric. "Wait yet a moment, good uncle," said the Jester, in his natural tone; "better look long before you leap in the dark." "By my faith," said Cedric, "I should know that voice!"
"The witnesses of this," faltered the old man, seeing that he must yield, but doubtful still. "This lady is Doña Inez de Mendoza," said Don John, "and this is Miguel de Antona, the court jester. They are sufficient." So it chanced that the witnesses of Don John of Austria's secret marriage were a blind girl and the King's fool.
I therefore gave Maliterni my heartiest thanks, as well as the hundred crowns I had promised him, which I considered so well employed that I did not regret their loss. Maliterni, who was a jester of the first water, and a creature of the Marshal d'Estrees, was lacking neither in wit nor knowledge; but he was deficient in a sense of order and refinement.
The count had furnished Ulrich with a spirited young horse, that shortened the road for him by its tricks and capers. But the jester, who became more and more attached to the boy, also did his utmost to keep the feeling of happiness alive in his heart.
"Messire," panted the jester, wild of eye and with a trickle of blood upon his pallid face, "O sweet sir let them not slay me!"
The Comte de Guiche consented to marry a wife to whom he was but slightly attached, and who is quite content with him, praising his good qualities and all his actions. Mexica. Philippa. Molina. The Queen's Jester. In marrying Maria Theresa, Infanta of Spain, the King had made an advantageous match from a political point of view.
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