Some of them played the part of professional jesters (like the later buffoons and court fools), and kept collections of witticisms ready for use at their patrons' table; others relied upon flattery, others again condescended to the most degrading devices (Plutarch, De adulatore, 23; De educatione puerorum, 17). [Please select]
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Does it begin to be obvious why kings used to employ court jesters. [Please select]
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Sycophants, courtiers, jesters, imbecile sons of princes, became great ecclesiastical dignitaries. [Please select]
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_The Monkeys:_ And we are the jesters that laugh at you all. [Please select]
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Among them were senators, but mainly those who were content to be jesters as well. [Please select]
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[426-11] The court fools or jesters of that day wore clothes of many colors--were _pied_, that is, _dappled_. [Please select]
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Generally, professional singers and musicians, dancing-girls, jugglers, and jesters were called in to contribute to the merrymaking. [Please select]
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=cox´ comb=: a piece of red cloth worn by jesters on their caps. [Please select]
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He, sung a good song, told a good story, and could crack a severe jest with all the acumen of Shakespeare's jesters, though without using, like them, the cloak of insanity. [Please select]
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Jesters, dwarfs, and minstrels were there in unusual numbers, and more noisy and intrusive than they were permitted to be in better regulated society. [Please select]
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