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Various. English Jests and Anecdotes, Collected from Various Sources
English Jests and Anecdotes, Collected from Various Sources
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JAMES THE FIRST.
King James the First gave all manner of liberty and encouragement to the exercise of buffoonery, and he took great delight in it himself. Happening once to bear somewhat hard on one of his Scotch courtiers, “By my soul,” retorted the peer, “he that made your majesty a king, spoiled the best fool in Christendom!”
