The instructions to the painter are as follows: "Then shall come one on horseback habited like a jester, and carrying a rhyme-tablet for the jesters and natural fools; and he shall be Conrad von der Rosen.
As he lacked money, he had to take many humble offices to earn his bread, and more than once had to undergo the indignity of sitting among the jesters and buffoons at some great house that had honored him with its favor.
The worldlings, the jesters ceased to laugh: they shuddered.
In an indirect way, such jesters as Hutten and Erasmus dealt violent blows at the Inquisition, through their satires on the Dominican idiots.
Soon after this time, we read of amateur jestersor rather practical jesters called planoi.
The time was approaching when the humour manufactured by professed jesters would not be appreciated.
But in this line he is not very successful, and his contests of rival jesters are as much beneath the notice of any good writer of the present day, as his account is of Porcius, the jack-pudding "swallowing cakes whole.
As the jesters approached their end, they had more of the moralist and politician in them than of the mountebank.
No doubt it was the demand that led to the supply, forjesters were in request at convivial meetings, and the jealousy of their equally poor, but less amusing neighbours, not improbably led to some of the ill-natured reflections upon them.
Court-jesters are heard of as early as the reign of Philip of Macedon, but they seem to have been at first little more than parasites of inferior rank and education.
Jesters obtained patrons, and a distinct class of men grew up, who, having more humour than means were glad to barter their pleasantries for something more substantial.
Too, there were poor dwarfs and simple-minded among the slaves, who were used to amuse master and mistress and guests as did the jesters of the courts in Europe later.
Conversation would be entered upon and jokes and puns made, professional jesters being quite often hired for the evening.
I have known king's jesters in the American circus, but their art was too fine to be appreciated by the multitudes, and they had to give way to the more popular form of clowning.
In King Lear are the words: "Jesters do oft prove prophets.
Nor is it quite idle to notice in what a direct barefaced manner these jesters appeal to the coarse untutored malice of our nature.
In this, as we have already intimated, lies the difference between the crowd of jesters and Charles Lamb.
Enter Jesters dragging behind them an enormous Christmas stocking made of red cambric.
Goodwill (claps her hands together as if with a happy thought): Let us send the Jestersto bring in to them the Christmas Bowl!
Some one out there must laugh, or the Jesters will not think we are merry.
For jesters have to go off by themselves once in a while to think up new jokes, and no other king lived within riding distance.
Nobody stopped King Muffin, for wanderingjesters were common in those days.
Now King Muffin hadn't had a thing to eat, for jesters are supposed to eat at a little table afterwards.
Leaping upon the table, amid the smothered mirth of the assemblage, the two jesters placed themselves opposite each other, and grinned such comical defiance that the king roared with laughter.
But he tarried only a moment beside her, chucked her under the chin, and, whispering a word or two in her ear that heightened her blushes, passed on to the spot where the two jesters were standing.
Perhaps one reason was, that Butler was the greatest of the jesters against the society.
But yet she was so offended, that she forbad Tarleton and all her jesters from coming near her table, being inwardly displeased with this impudent and unreasonable liberty.
There existed in ancient Greece a distinct class of professed fools whose habits were not essentially different from those of the jesters of the middle ages.
The names and the witticisms of many of the official jesters at the courts of Europe have been preserved by popular or state records.
The point is better understood when it is borne in mind that fools and jesterswere dressed in calf-skins.
As the Florentines went round as jesters to the courts of princes, so they had in the herald or knight of the Signoria a sort of official buffoon who was, however, employed in earnest as well as in jest.
Even knights had jesters or fools, and while these jesters were always funny, sometimes they were very smart.
Minstrels and jesters were anciently called gleekmen or gligmen.
Thus the jesters and minstrels were indefinitely expressed by the words joculator, scurra, mimus, ministrallus, &c.
Tarleton was Shakspere's friend and fellow-actor, the low comedian of Queen Elizabeth's reign, who probably suggested to Shakspere some of his jesters and fools.
For when Cockney jesters sneer at Scottish poverty, they do not consider how ready this people is to spend its savings and sparings on what it believes a good cause.
The kiss of peace, it was understood, went round; and ribald jesters represented the presiding official as obliged to exhort, “Dinna pass over the auld wife!
The jesters had become very quiet; they went about gravely keeping order, for the court was now filled with performers.
To his influence she attributed the insults which the jesters offered her, and she saw in the whole group but a crowd of willing tools handled by her personal enemy.
The jesters are also the heralds and marshals of the celebration.
The third act of the dance soon ended, and the jesters went to work once more,--women and girls now became the objects of their attentions.
The Princess Ninette emerges this time, begs for water, and is about to succumb to a deadly thirst, when the Jesters rush to her rescue with a bucket of water.
At last, the Jesters (also called the Cynics) enter, and succeed in silencing the squabbling groups.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jesters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
