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He was a universal actor--comedian, tragedian, buffoon--all in one.

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Half-priest, half-buffoon, something of a Friar Tuck and something of a Louis XV.

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He is full of pranks and wiles, but often at a loss for a meal of victuals; ever itching to try his arts magic on great beasts and often meeting ludicrous failures therein; envious of the powers of others, and constantly striving to outdo them in what they do best; in short, little more than a malicious buffoon delighting in practical jokes, and abusing his superhuman powers for selfish and ignoble ends.

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They are mere buffoons.

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), Mark is dismissed by this Professor Balderdash as a hollow buffoon....

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Of the two undoubted world figures that we have contributed to letters, one was allowed to die like a stray cat up an alley and the other was mistaken for a cheap buffoon.

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Evidently a vein of drollery in his nature had been better appreciated, and oftener exhibited to admiring audiences, than any of the finer qualities of thought or sentiment of which you instinctively knew him to be capable; and yet the face protested against it, too, by a gentle irony with a hint of self-scorn in it, as if its owner, in his own estimation, wrote himself a buffoon for his condescension.

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He is generally represented as a buffoon, and easily outwitted.

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The buffoon and the zany are useful in their places.

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Up to this point of his life indeed hardly anyone would have dreamed of calling him a Puritan; he was called sometimes an anarchist, sometimes a buffoon, sometimes (by the more discerning stupid people) a prig.

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Perhaps the irony in the situation is this: that all the crowds are acclaiming him as the blasting and hypercritical buffoon, while he himself is seriously rallying his synthetic power, and with a grave face telling himself that it is time he had a faith to preach.

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"Your own part, I suppose, J. J., is that of irresponsible buffoon."

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The seemingly intelligent individual who can only find material for ribaldry in this connection is a more serious buffoon than he imagines.

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A circus procession of buffoons, with dromedaries, elephants, sham giants, and pasteboard whales and dragons, seems to have consoled them for all their misery.

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Unable to obtain a hearing, much less an answer, Postumius was leaving the theatre, when a drunken buffoon rushed up to him and sullied his white robe in the most disgusting manner.

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In the midst of these cruelties he often sang, danced, or played the buffoon in public, fought as a gladiator in the circus, and ordered the people to worship him as a second Hercules.

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Dryden described him under the character of Zimri in the celebrated lines in _Absalom and Achitophel_ (to which Buckingham replied in _Poetical Reflections on a late Poem ... by a Person of Honour, 1682_):-- "A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.... Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late, He had his jest, but they had his estate."

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Arab, a. joyous, merry, pleasant Arabawl, a. yielding, merriness Arabedd, n. jocundity, drollery Arabeddu, v. to create mirth Arabeddus, a. facetious Arabwr, n. a jester, a buffoon Arad, n. a plough Aradiad, n. tillage Aradol, a. ploughing; arable Aradu, v. to plough, to till Aradwr, n. a ploughman Aradwy, n. ploughing: a. arable Araeth, n. speech, oration Araf, a. slow, soft, mild, still Arafaidd, a. rather slow; gen le Arafedd, n. slowness Arafeiddio, v. to slacken pace Arafu, v. to go slower Arafwch, n. slowness, mildness Arall, a. another, other Arallair, n. a paraphrase Aralledig, a. diversifled Aralleg, n. an allegory Arallegiad, n. an allegorizing Arallegol, a. allegorical Arallegu, v. to allegorize Arallegwr, n. an allegorizer Aralliad, n. alteration Arallrwydd, n. alternity Arallu, v. to alter; to invert Aramred, n. perambulation Aran, n. high place, or alp Araul, a. serene; pleasant Arbed, n. a sparing, a saying: v. to spare, to save Arbediad, n. a sparing a saying Arbedol, a. saving, sparing Arbedwr, n. a sparer Arbenig, principal; excellent; peculiar Arbenigol, a. superior, excelling Arbenigrwydd, n. supremacy Arbenog, a. principal, supreme Arbenol, a. sovereign, supreme Arberyglu, v. to endanger Arbetrus, a. very dubious Arbetruso, v. to doubt much Arbrinder, n. great scarcity Arbwyll, n. reason, intellect Arbwylleb, Arbwylleg, n. logic Arbylu, v. to blunt greatly Arch, n. a request, a petition, a demand: n. a trunk, or chest: a. chief, topmost, principal Archangel, n. archangel Archdeyrn, n. a monarch Archdeyrnaeth, n. monarchy Archdeyrnol, a. monarchial Archddug, n. an archduke Archdduges, n. archduchess Archddugiaeth, n. archdukedom Archddugol, a. archducal Archedig, a. demanded, required Archedigaeth, n. requisition Archedigol, a. imperative Archen, n. a shoe, sandal Archenad, n. apparel, clothing Archenu, v. to put on shoes Archesgob, n. archbishop Archesgobaeth, n. archbishopric Archesgobawd, n. archiepiscopacy Archiad, n. a demanding Archlen, n. the loin, or waist Archoll, n. a wound, a cut Archolladwy, a. vulnerable Archolledig, a. wounded, cut Archolli, v. to wound, to cut Archolliad, n. a wounding Archwaeth, n. savour, taste Archwaethiad, n. a savouring Archwaethu, v. to savour Archwaethus, a. savoury Ardal, n. a region, a province Ardalaeth, n. a marquisate Ardalwr, n. a marquis; a borderer, a countryman Ardalydd, n. a marcher Ardant, a. clamorous, noisy Ardawch, a. hazy and sultry Ardebed, n. the face, feature Ardeml, n. a spread out Ardochi, v. to become hazy Ardraws, a. transverse, cross Ardrem, n. prospect, view Ardremu, v. to survey, to behold Ardreth, n. a tax, a rate Ardrethiad, n. a rating Ardrethol, a. rated, taxed Ardrethu, v. to rate or tax Ardymmher, n. temperature Ardymmherol, temperamental Ardymmheru, v. to temper Ardyst, n. an open witness Ardystio, v. to certify Ardd, n. ploughed land Arddadgan, v. to denounce Arddangos, to indicate, to shew Arddangosiad, n. indication Arddangosol, a. indicative Arddal, n. support, a bearing Arddansawdd, n. ontology, the science of entities Arddansodol, a. metaphysical Arddant, n. a gag-tooth Arddawd, n. a prefix, an adjunct Arddawn, n. a talent Arddedfol, a. institutional Arddedig, a. tilled, ploughed Arddeddf, n. an institute Arddefod, n. a ceremony Arddefodol, a. ceremonial Arddelw, n. a claim, a challenge; an assertion, v. to claim; to assert Arddelwad, n. an averment Ardderchafad, Ardderchaflad, n. advancement Ardderchafu, to elevate highly Ardderchedd, n. excellence Ardderchog, a. excellent, exalted Ardderchogi, v. to dignify Arddiad, n. a ploughing Arddigon, n. superfluity Arddigoni, v. to make an excess Arddigonol, a. superabundant Arddisgyn, v. to befall, to happen Arddisum, a. diminutive Arddodi, v. to prefix, to annex Arddodiad, n. a preposition, a prefix.

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perhaps, peradventure Ysgaw, n. elder wood Ysgawen, n. an elder tree Ysgawn, n. light body: a. light Ysgecriad, n. a bickering Ysgecru, v. to bicker, to brawl Ysgeler, a. atrocious Ysgelerdra, n. atrociousness Ysgentyn, n. a caperer, a buffoon Ysgerbwd, n. skeleton, a carcass Ysgeth, n. a spear, a lance Ysgethriad, n. an iterating Ysgethrg, v. to iterate, to repeat Ysgi, n. a cutting off; a parer; a hat Ysgien, n. a slicer; a cymetar; turner's lathe; tall woman Ysgil, n. a recess, a nook Ysgiliad, n. a setting behind Ysgilio, v. to set behind Ysgin, n. a skin robe, a pelisse Ysgip, n. a quick snatch Ysgipiad, n. a snatching off Ysgipio, v. to snatch away Ysgipiol, a. snatching Ysgiw, n. a screen, a settle; a third cousin Ysgiwiad, n. a sheltering Ysgiwio, n. to screen, to shelter Ysg awring, Ysgrawling, n. glue, cement Ysglawringo, v. to glue Ysglem, n. a slice, a sliver Ysglemio, v. to slice, to sliver Ysglen, n. a sex, a kind Ysglenol, a. sexual Ysglent, n. a slide; adrift Ysglyn, n. a knob, a knot Ysglino, v. to form a knob Ysgloen, n. a damsel, a maid Ysglofen, n. a slip, a spray Ysglyf, n. what seeks for prey Ysglyfaeth, n. depredation; prey, spoil Ysglyfaethiad, n. a depredating Ysglyfaethu, v. to depredate, to spoil Ysglyfiad, n. a depredator Ysglyfio, v. to depredate, to prey on Ysglymu, v. to form a knot Ysgoad, n. a starting aside Ysgoegyn, n. a coxcomb Ysgog, n. motion, stir Ysgogi, v. to wag, to stir Ysgogiad, n. a wagging, a stirring Ysgogyn, n. to flutterer Ysgol, n. a school: n. a peak; a ladder: a. vehement, active Ysgolaig, n. a scholar Ysgoleigdod, n. scholarship Ysgolelgiaeth, n. a schooling Ysgoleigio, v. to school Ysgolfaer, n. a proctor Ysgoliad, n. a schooling Ysgolp, n. a spar Ysgor, n. a rampart, a bulwark Ysgorfa, n. a place of defence Ysgori, v. to encircle, to hem Ysgoriad, n. an entrenching Ysgornio, v. to scorn, slight Ysgoth, n. a purge, a voidance Ysgothfa, n. privy-house Ysgrad, n. what is rigid or stiff Ysgraell, Ysgraen, n. the sea swallow Ysgraf, n. what scrapes off Ysgrafell, n. a scraper; a rasp; a currycomb Ysgrafellu, v. to rasp, to scrape Ysgrafiad, n. a scraping Ysgrafu, v. to scrape, to grate Ysgraf, n. a ferry boat, a ferry Ysgraffiniad, n. a scarifying Ysgraffinio, v. to scarify Ysgrain, n. what is crawling Ysgrawen, n. a hard crust Ysgrech, n. a scream Ysgrechiad, n. a shrieking Ysgrechian, v. to keep screaming Ysgrechio, to scream, to shriek Ysgrechog, n. a jay Ysgrepan, n. a wallet, a scrip Ysgri, n. a shriek, a scream Ysgrif, n. a notch; a writing Ysgrifen, n. a piece of writing Ysgrifeniad, n. a writing Ysgrifenu, v. to write, to pen Ysgrifenydd, n. a scribe, a writer Ysgnfiad, n. a writing Ysgrifo, v. to notch; to write Ysgrifwas, n. a clerk Ysgrogell, n. a draw bridge Ysgrubliad, Ysgrubl, n. a beast, a brute Ysgrud, n. a frame; a skeleton Ysgrwd, n. a carcase Ysgrwth, n. a heap, a bulk Ysgryd, n. a shiver, a shake Ysgrydiad, n. a shivering Ysgrythyr, n. the scripture Ysgrythyrol, a. scriptural Ysgub, n. a sheaf; a besom Ysgubell, n. a whisk; a besom, a broom Ysgubiad, n. a sweeping Ysgubion, n. sweepings Ysgubo, v. to whisk; to sweep Ysgubor, n. a barn Ysguborio, v. to put in a barn Ysguth, n. a scud; a whisk Ysguthan, n. a ringdove, a wood-pigeon Ysguthell, n. a scudder Ysguthiad, n. a scudding Ysgw, n. guard, care; refuge Ysgwad, n. a guarding Ysgwaeth, n. guardianship Ysgwaetheroedd, adv.

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"But, Your Majesty," quavered one poor old scholar, "I was not employed as a buffoon but as a teacher of astrology!"

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Look at the faces of the actors and buffoons when they come off from their business; and Tom Fool washing the paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas.

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In the first place, that exalted position would never be filled by one who, for lack of serious argument, constantly appeals to the risibilities of his audience; never by a wit, a mere joker, a story-teller; in other words--if you will pardon me, my fellow-citizens--by a mere buffoon.

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Eventually it was known, when the town grew inquisitive, and the critics were compelled to ferret out his antecedents, that the new actor had already attained middle age,--that he had been vegetating for years in that obscurest and most miserable of all dramatic positions, the low comedian of a country-theatre,--that he had come timidly to London and accepted at a low salary the post of buffoon at a half-theatre half-saloon in the City Road, called indifferently the "Grecian" and the "Eagle," where he had danced and tumbled, and sung comic songs, and delivered the dismal waggeries set down for him, without any marked success, and almost without notice.

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The man was the buffoon of their company, and became more depraved every year.

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And here unfortunate circumstances--my poverty and not my will--constrain me to stint the world of its due: to languish in this lost corner of Nowhere, like Wamba the son of Witless, the mere professed buffoon of a merer franklin.

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Next followed actors and buffoons, who danced and sang, while one of them imitated the deceased's words and actions when alive.

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One of the company added, "A merry-andrew, a buffoon."

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The three preceding generations were actors who played in buffoon parts.

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He says: "The gross jests, which are found in the comedies of our time, and which are their meat rather than the spice, are the reasons why he who says 'Comedy' seems to speak of a buffoon's pastime.

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The popular idea of the Lord of Misrule is that he was a buffoon; but this is far from being the case.

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Then, too, old Herbertus Stockhore--he must not be forgotten; I have already introduced him to your notice in p. 59, and my friend Bob Transit has illustrated the sketch with his portrait; yet here he demands notice in his official character, and perhaps I cannot do better than quote the humorous account given of him by the elegant pen of an old Etonian {3} "Who is that buffoon that travesties the travesty?

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Yon coxcomb, for instance, who buffoons Brutus, with his brothers, are indeed capital brutes by nature, but as deficient of the art histrionic as any biped animals well can be.

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In some of them were bands of choice musicians, in others companies of jugglers, buffoons, and storiers.

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As for buffoons and artists, to amuse a vacant hour or sketch a vacant face, we must frankly tell you at once that there is not one.

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'And Backbite for a buffoon,' said Mr. Annesley.

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And to think people once thought me a buffoon for suggesting a romantic Notting Hill.

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Herein is Shylock, not yet with pathos on him, but a buffoon still, to draw the gallery laugh.

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Wal, this is sum unexpected an' s'prisin', ain't it Spike?" and he turned to his comrade, grinning and glaring like a huge buffoon; but a close observer might have noticed that his skin had whitened beneath its red beard.

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As Byron had foreseen, _Marino Faliero_ was coldly received by the playgoing public, and proved a loss to the "speculating buffoons," who had not realized that it was "unfit for their Fair or their booth" (Letter to Murray, January 20, 1821, _Letters_, 1901, v. 228, and p. 226, note 2.

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He was no fiddler, but (p. 282) was endeavoring to prevent the music of him who, 'In the space of one revolving moon, Was statesman, poet, fiddler, and buffoon.'"

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Somehow, the little fellows, unfortunately, take the Lark for Mr. Spohf, who has hitherto done the funny in a refined style, scarcely to be imagined--an elegant, amiable, fun,--a mixture of the buffoon and gentleman, the sublime and the ridiculous, quite marvellous to behold,--making our little friend (who you are aware was moulded in one of Nature's odd freaks) appear, to tender imaginations, almost supernatural.

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Tom Corwin, of the same State, with a portly figure, swarthy complexion, and wonderful facial expression, and an inexhaustible flow of wit, who was not a buffoon, but a gentleman whose humor was natural, racy, and chaste.

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He fitted Dryden's description of: "A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon."

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They must have a buffoon, a mountebank, whose methods are repugnant to those who believe in the religion that is taught by the Bible.

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The Puritan has become a grim and ugly scarecrow, on whom every buffoon may break his jest.

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At Saurloch, a little distance south of Munich, there were still, in 1840, to be seen pictures of Luther and his wife in a group made up of chimney sweeps, buffoons, and many others of the class.

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[Footnote 299: Rapin, who follows Hall, and gives no better authority, tells us that Prince Henry's court was the receptacle of libertines, debauchees, buffoons, parasites, and the like.

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But it must be remembered that not Falstaff, but Sir John Oldcastle, was made the buffoon on the stage at first, and continued so for many years, till the offence which it gave led to the substitution of Falstaff.

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The best is, Sir John Falstaff hath relieved the memory of Sir John Oldcastle, and of late is substituted buffoon in his place.--Church History, iv.

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As dictator, he is a buffoon; let him make himself emperor, he will be grotesque.

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16 -A small caste of story-tellers and buffoons.

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Della Scala stood among his courtiers, with mimes and buffoons (_nebulones ac histriones_) making him heartily merry; when turning to Dante, he said: "Is it not strange, now, that this poor fool should make himself so entertaining; while you, a wise man, sit there day after day, and have nothing to amuse us with at all?"

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If you be a great man, flattery and envy are killing you; if you be poor, every one is trampling upon and despising you; after having become an inventor, if you exalt your head and seek for praise, you will be called a boaster and a coxcomb; if you lead a godly life and resort to the church and the altar, you will be called a hypocrite; if you do not, then you are an infidel or a heretic; if you be merry, you will be called a buffoon; if you are silent, you will be called a morose wretch; if you follow honesty, you are nothing but a simple fool; if you go neat, you are proud, if not, a swine; if you are smooth speaking, then you are false, or a trifler without meaning; if you are rough, you are an arrogant, disagreeable devil.

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And could you not perceive something of the infernal cold in the lovingness of the spendthrift, and in your own civility to your customers, whilst any thing remained with them--in the drollery of the buffoons, in the praise of the envious and the backbiter, in the promises of the wanton, or in the shanks of the good companions freezing beneath your tables?

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"Oh, those silly buffoons and their musical-comedy uniforms," the Crown Prince shrugged.

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Fierce men from the Faubourgs of St. Antoine and St. Marceau, and fiercer women from the markets, shouted savage applause or menace from galleries, where not so long ago the Italian buffoons had amused the perpetual leisure of the finest ladies and proudest grandees of France.

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In short, the great celestial deities seem to have admitted Vulcan among them as great men used to keep buffoons at their tables, to make them laugh, and to be the butt of the whole company.

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"Sir," said Mowbray, angrily, "you are too old either to play the buffoon, or to get buffoon's payment."

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This being the sole inducement of publishing this _Apology_; it may not perhaps seem unseasonable to _disabuse_ some (otherwise) _well-meaning_ People, who _led away_ and _perverted_ by the _Noise_ of a few _Ignorant_ and _Comical Buffoons_, (whose _Malevolence_, or _Impertinencies_ intitle them to nothing that is truly _Great_ and _Venerable_) are with an _Insolence_ suitable to their _Understanding_, still crying out, and asking, _What have the Society done?_ Now, as nothing less than _Miracles_ (and unless _God_ should every day _repeat_ them at the _Call_ of these _Extravagants_) will _convince_ some Persons, of the most _Rational_ and _Divine Truths_, (already so often and extraordinarily establish'd;) so, nor will any thing _satisfie_ these _unreasonable_ Men, but the production of the _Philosophers-stone_, and _Great-Elixir_; which yet were they _Possessors_ of, they would _consume_ upon their _Lux_ and _Vanity_.

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'Tis _he_ that sets the _Buffoons_, and empty _Sycophants_, to turn all that's _Great_ and _Virtuous_ into _Raillery_ and Derision: 'Tis therefore to encounter _these_, that like those resolute _Builders_,{xciii:2} whilst we employ one hand in the Work, _we_, with the _other_ are oblig'd to hold our _Weapon_, till some bold, and _Gallant Genius_ deliver us, and raise the Siege.

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Cæsar equipped at his own expense an escort of two hundred cavaliers, with musicians and buffoons to entertain his sister on the way.

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=Pickel-Herringe= (5 _syl._), a popular name among the Dutch for a buffoon; a corruption of _pickle-härin_ ("a hairy sprite"), answering to Ben Jonson's _Puck-hairy_.

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=Querno= (_Camillo_), of Apulia, was introduced to Pope Leo X., as a buffoon, but was promoted to the laurel.

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_Scogan_ (_John_), the favorite jester and buffoon of Edward IV.

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=antickes=, buffoons.

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The buffoons and the peasant wenches were excluded from the castle, and his reverence the village priest took their place, and was closeted long and frequently with the squire; the dogs and the bears were locked out of the courtyard, that they might not, as usual, tear approaching mendicants to pieces; and the Nabob and all his retainers went to church to partake of the sacrament, the former vowing on his knees before the altar that he would mark the day by giving all his enemies the right hand of fellowship and forgiveness.

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On the fourth day, of all his good friends, officials, domestics, and buffoons, Mike Kis, Martin the former Whitsun King, Master Varga the estate agent, Palko the old heyduke, and Vidra the gipsy, were the only persons who remained with John Kárpáthy as he stood at Death's ferry.

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The young buffoon had had his head clean shaved in order that his hair might grow all the stronger, so that his bald pate quite scared the weak-nerved members of the company.

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The more original young bucks were dressed in coats with large flapping sleeves, vests with broad flat buttons, and velvet caps with crane's feathers; the elegants, on the other hand, affected tightly fitting dolmans and spiral hats; only the buffoon, Count Gregory, was got up, _à l'Anglaise_, in a red cut-away coat, and piteously begged every one to explain to the dogs that he was not the fox.

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The Szépkiesdys are coming up, and we may also expect to see there Count Gergely with his mother, young Eugene Darvay, the handsome Rezsö Csendey, and that genial prince of buffoons, Mike Kis."

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[_Wrathfully._] You offspring of a loose wench, you brother-in-law of the king, Sansthānaka, you libertine, you slanderer, you buffoon, you gilded monkey, say it before me!

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He rushes into polygamous Mormonism, or buffoon revivalism, or shallow-minded atheism; nay, he will even become an anarchist, because a few men have too much money and too little soul.

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It is this Buffoon means when he calls genius a great capacity for taking pains.

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She is the vyolet, The daysy delectáble, The columbine commendáble, The jelofer amyáble; For this most goodly floure, This blossom of fressh coloúr, So Jupiter me succoúr, She florysheth new and new In beaute and vertew; _Hac claritate gemina, O gloriosa femina, etc._" Skelton was a rude railing rhymer, a singular mixture of a true and original poet with a buffoon; coarse as Rabelais, whimsical, obscure, but always vivacious.

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And though it {563} would be ridiculous to maintain that either of these writers takes rank with Lowell and Holmes, or to deny that there is an amount of flatness and coarseness in many of their labored fooleries which puts large portions of their writings below the line where real literature begins, still it will not do to ignore them as mere buffoons, or even to predict that their humors will soon be forgotten.

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Truly he was not the fitting companion for the buffoons and jesters among whom he was too often compelled to sit in the palaces where he accepted bounty.

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They wore an emblem of a fool's cap and bells, or a monk's cowl, which was supposed to mock the Cardinal's contemptuous allusion to the nobles as buffoons.

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Think of the abyss of lust and murder there, of the Emperor by turns a buffoon, a sensualist, and a murderer.

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The consul himself[79] is a man of a small and ill-regulated mind, a mere buffoon of that splenetic kind which raises a laugh even in the absence of wit: it is his face rather than his facetiousness[80] that causes merriment: he takes practically no part in public business, and is quite alienated from the Optimates.

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'Tis a sort of historical portrait, like Kenilworth, where the Duke of Buckingham, he who "In one revolving moon Was hero, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon," is the principal figure: Charles II.

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He would give to a painted harlot a thousand pounds for a loathsome embrace, and to a player or buffoon a hundred for a trumpery pun, but would refuse a penny to the widow or orphan of an old Royalist soldier.

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In truth, though Harry Randall had been a wild and frolicsome youth in his Hampshire home, the effect of being a professional buffoon had actually made it a relaxation of effort to him to be grave, quiet, and slow in movement; and this was perhaps a more effectual disguise than the dark garments, and the false brown hair, beard, and moustache, with which he concealed the shorn and shaven condition required of the domestic jester.

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I'm a wedded man," said Randall, who certainly, in private life, had much less of the buffoon about him than his father-in-law.

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[Footnote 74: "It must be put by the original, stanza for stanza, and verse for verse; and you will see what was permitted in a Catholic country and a bigoted age to Churchmen, on the score of Religion--and so tell those buffoons who accuse me of attacking the Liturgy.

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"I write in the greatest haste, it being the hour of the Corso, and I must go and buffoon with the rest.

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The fool's-cap he wears does not prove him to be a fool; and even when he touches the tip of his nasal organ with his fore-finger and winks so irresistibly, meaning lurks in his facetious features, to assure you he does not jest without a purpose, or play the buffoon only to coin sixpences.

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My uncle was scarcely ever mentioned in the house, and I did not know him at all; all I knew from public talk was, that he had led, and was still leading, the life of a buffoon.

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[Footnote 23: The luties are privileged buffoons, usually keeping monkeys, bears, and other animals.]

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"Yes," he said, gruffly, "I dare say it is very funny, and anybody can laugh like a buffoon about such an arrangement; but how are they going to be safe on board a vessel whose officers cannot keep her from running aground."

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"Silence yourself, buffoon!" retorted Distin, sharply, and poor Macey sank down in his chair, startled, or assuming to be.

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"Don't take any notice of the buffoon, Gilmore," cried Distin sharply.

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"Silence, buffoon!"

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"The buffoon is silent," said Macey, sinking calmly down into his place; "but don't you two fight, please, till after we've got back and had some food.

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It is curious, the different mindset one has to have when reading the exploits of a couple of plainly idiotic buffoons, compared with that taken on when reading practically any other book.

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Ill-fed, dirty, unkempt men as our sailors were, we got to like them all, from the elderly dignified Mohammed, who thought he knew more about navigation than the captain, to Ahmet Faraj, the buffoon who played the tom-tom and made everybody laugh; this worthy individual was the recognised leader of all the festivities with which they regaled us from time to time, consisting of very ugly songs and a yet uglier dance, the chief art in which consisted in wagging their elastic tails with an energy which mortals further removed from monkey origin could never hope to approach.

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He carried letters to almost everybody; Dukes, Radicals, Authors, eminent British Prize-fighters, Music-hall buffoons, and he prosecuted his examination steadily.

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I shall sketch the characters of these pious buffoons, before I introduce them to his acquaintance.

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He is by some represented as a kind of buffoon in the pulpit; but others more judiciously observe, that he only indulged his natural genius, and uttered humorous and lively things, as the good Father observes himself, to keep the attention of his audience awake.

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The Jesuit Raynaud calls Erasmus the "Batavian buffoon," and accuses him of nourishing the egg which Luther hatched.

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