Some said he was a proper man, and did wear his rayment cleanly; some said the foole could not put on his owne rayment; some said one thing, and some said another.
Scogin said to his scholler, Thou foole and asse-head!
Goe, foole, goe, said the ordinary, and let thy master send thee no more to me for orders, for it is impossible to make a foole a wise man.
It is explained as "The Scots Kings flight from Worcester, represented by the foole on horseback, riding backward, turning his face every way in feares, ushered by duke Hambleton and the lord Wilmot.
Howe being gone) comes Mr. Martin, to trouble me again to get him a Lieutenant's place for which he is as fit as a foole can be.
Ford is a cunning man, and makes a foole of the other, and the other believes whatever the other tells him.
Ford, and Sir John Robinson; the last of whom continues still the same foole he was, crying up what power he has in the City, in knowing their temper, and being able to do what he will with them.
You are a Foole graunted, therefore your Issues being foolish do not derogate Clot.
I would they had not come betweene vs 2 So would I, till you had measur'd how long a Foole you were vpon the ground Clot.
For Gods sake let the doores be shut on him, He may play the foole no where but in his Owne house: to a Nunnery goe.
Cræsus misliking the woordes of Solon suffred him to depart saying: “He was a foole that measured present pleasures with no better regard.
He is a foole that looketh after the fruite, and doeth not measure the height of the tree wheron it groweth.
After this the lorde by perswasion of his wife, commaunded that the foole should be auoided the house, that his presence might not grieue or torment her, ne yet renewe the memorie of a thing that neuer was thought or doen.
And to shew himselfe a right well able man to paye for that he boughte, many times (like a dolte and foole as he was) hee drew out his pursse stuffed with crownes, in the presence of them that passed to and fro.
This foole by reason of his follye and simplicitye, was the onelye sporte and pastime of the Lord and Lady.
I will not be serued with a foole in no wise, When I choose an husbande I hope to take a man.
Wherfore I beseech you, with me to be a witnesse, That in all my lyfe I neuer intended thing lesse, And what a brainsicke foole Ralph Roister Doister is, Your selfe know well enough.
Why, suche a foole it is, As no man for good pastime would forgoe or misse.
I see a sheepe shering corne, Who's the foole now?
Alas, any foole may ride me, but I would faine see any man ride Mistres Dorothy.
What a dull foolewas I, A stupid foole, to wrap up such a secreat In a sheepes hart!
And now (methincks) I dare securely looke on The steepe and desprat follyes my indiscretion Like a blind carelesfoole had allmost cast me on.
Come, Gentlemen, let's now goe take our rest: Prowd confidence is but a foole at best.
That's the fat foole of the Curtin: And the lean fool of the Bull: Since Shancke did leave to sing his rimes, He is counted but a gull.
And in these, likening the wise man to the Giant, the foole to the Dwarfe.
Proclus himselfe not onely bare with his sonne, but also vsed it himselfe for company, which some of his frends greatly rebuked him for, saying, o Proclus, an olde man and a Philosopher to play the foole and lasciuious more than the sonne.
But for a foole to talke foolishly or a wiseman wisely, there is no such absurditie or disproportion.
So will the wise be great and high, euen in the lowest place: The foole when he is most aloft, will seeme but low and base.
Fit for a Foole to fall by: What crosse Diuell Made me put this maine Secret in the Packet I sent the King?
For count of this, the Counts a Foole I know it, Who payes before, but not when he does owe it.
There's the Foole hangs on your backe already Ape.
And might not any foolehave beene so too, As well as you?
Some foole hath put this tricke on you, yet more T'uncover your defect of spirit and valour, First showne in lingring my deare brothers wreake.
What cold dull Northern brain, what foole but he, Durst take into his Epimethean breast A box of such plagues as the danger yeelds Incur'd in this discovery?
Begar I will kill de cowardly Iack preest, 40 He is make a foole of moy.
What foole (saith he) ads to the Sea a drop, Lends Etna sparks, or angry stormes his wind?
I will not answere him with our common English prouerbe, as I might, which is: That onefoole may aske moe questions in one houre, then ten discrete men can wel answere in fiue dayes.
And thou, fresh peece Of excellent Witchcraft, whom of force must know The royall Foole thou coap'st with Shep.
That the King of Portugall is a very foole almost, and his mother do all, and he is a very poor Prince.
Jane did tell the story like a foole and a dissembling fanatique, like her grandmother, but so like a changeling, would make a man laugh to death almost, and yet be vexed to hear her.
The third thing they talke of is vsurie, a trade brought in by the Iewes, now perfectlie practised almost by euerie christian, and so commonlie that he is accompted but for a foole that dooth lend his monie for nothing.
And your experience makes you sad: I had rather haue a foole to make me merrie, then experience to make me sad, and to trauaile for it too Orl.
I, now am I in Arden, the more foole I, when I was at home I was in a better place, but Trauellers must be content.
I do now remember a saying: The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
The why is plaine, as way to Parish Church: Hee, that a Foole doth very wisely hit, Doth very foolishly, although he smart Seeme senselesse of the bob.
Fortune, hath not Fortune sent in this foole to cut off the argument?
But Cosen, what if we assaid to steale The clownish Foole out of your Fathers Court: Would he not be a comfort to our trauaile?
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