Several references are made in Spanish documents of Archy's insolence whilst in Madrid, though that was no new thing in Philip's Court, where the buffoons were numerous.
I know that buffoons [2] say that this is absurdly said, but I affirm that it is rightly said.
Don't the Buffoons take almost all manner of Liberties, and plunge through Thick and Thin, to make a jest?
And are these little Buffoonsfit to consult de Arduis Regni, &c.
His first care was to turn out the fools and buffoons that his father had kept at Court, or rather, as Buckingham called it, to get rid of the comic and pantomimic company which had been established in the palace.
This, with their usual imbecility, they speedily agreed to, and Piers soon returned to the court, which he filled with buffoons and parasites.
Out of this income the expenses of the little court, of the bodyguard, of the mercenary troops, and of the public buildings were met, as well as of the buffoons and men of talent who belonged to the personal attendants of the prince.
I tell you, O conscript fathers, that a lot of buffoons and actresses have been settled in the district of Campania.
He is protecting the interests of his buffoons and gamesters and pimps.
The whole court became a body of buffoons and jokers, and the most absurd and preposterous fashions of dress, the rudest and most boisterous romps and gambols were generally practiced.
I know not how to make you comprehend a people who are at once temperate and profligate, serious in their characters and buffoons in their amusements, capable of impressions and passions which are at once sudden and durable.
And the buffoons who attended would wake him, as if it were only in jest, with a cane or a whip.
The buffoons and mimes and masquers, against whom the Church had fulminated in the Middle Ages, and whom the scholars of the Revival looked down upon with condescending indulgence, now lifted up their heads.
A lot of scoundrels and buffoons came to advertise themselves as usual, and today, Monday, the day of the theatrical paper, there must be bits in the bulletins, THAT WILL MAKE COPY.
I know now, and thoroughly, all the great buffoonswho had a disastrous influence on the XIXth century.
And mixing withBuffoons and Pimps profane, Tainted the Stage for some small snip of Gain.
The Parliament had accused him, and he had enemies at Court, especially the buffoons and ladies of pleasure, because he thwarted some of them, and stood in their way; I could name some of the chief.
He had a particular talent in telling a story, and facetious passages, of which he had innumerable; this made some buffoons and vicious wretches too presumptuous and familiar, not worthy the favor they abused.
In the Feast of Buffoons there were mock cardinals and a mock Pope.
So it is with buffoons and jesters, who are always bent on rambling.
In the Feast of Buffoons of the same period the duties and rank of the clergy were caricatured and turned into fun and ribaldry.
Surajah Dowlah, contrary to his custom, had me brought into him in his private apartments, there being present besides only some of the minions and low buffoons he kept by him to amuse him.
What curst fools those speculating buffoons must be not to see that it is unfit for their fair--or their booth!
It is hard that I should have all the buffoonsin Britain to deal with--pirates who will publish, and players who will act--when there are thousands of worthy men who can get neither bookseller nor manager for love nor money.
The Mimi were an impudent race of buffoons who excelled in mimicry, and like our domestic fools, were admitted into convivial parties to entertain the guests.
They were, therefore, accompanied by jugglers, minstrels, and buffoons (i.
He was classed with the court buffoons and dwarfs who existed merely to amuse.
You may see the place now for sixpence: they have fiddlers there every day; and sometimes buffoons and mountebanks hire the Riding House and do their tricks and tumbling there.
The love of a wife is as much above the idle passion commonly called by that name, as the loud laughter of buffoons is inferior to the elegant mirth of gentlemen.
Mr. Granger has justly observed that the wit of the buffoons became the highest recommendation of a courtier in the time of Charles the Second.
Puttenham, speaking of verses that rhime in the middle and end, observes that "they were more commodiously uttered by the buffoons or vices in plays than by any other person.
A great many names of these buffoons have been preserved; and sufficient materials remain to furnish a separate biography of them, which might afford even more amusement than can be found in the lives of many of their betters.
Jupiter, Madame the Virgin, buffoons of the devil!
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