Jester

(noun.) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages.

校对:菲利斯

• Knave upon fool were worse, answered the Jester, and Jew upon bacon worst of all. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Our master was too ready to fight, said the Jester; and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The Jester next struck into another carol, a sort of comic ditty, to which the Knight, catching up the tune, replied in the like manner. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Wit, Sir Knight, replied the Jester, may do much. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Wait yet a moment, good uncle, said the Jester, in his natural tone; better look long before you leap in the dark. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• No, said the Jester, grinning, but they may reach Sheffield if they have good luck, and that is as fit a place for them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And I would laugh at it, said the honest Jester, if I could for weeping. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Gurth, said the Jester, I know thou thinkest me a fool, or thou wouldst not be so rash in putting thy head into my mouth. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Thou sayst well, said the Jester; had I been born a Norman, as I think thou art, I would have had luck on my side, and been next door to a wise man. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Knowest thou, said the Jester, my good friend Gurth, that thou art strangely courteous and most unwontedly pious on this summer morning? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I have left my shield in the tilt-yard, answered the Jester, as has been the fate of many a better knight than myself. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• To bid you prepare yourselves for death, answered the Jester. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• And the indignant swineherd resumed his sullen silence, which no efforts of the Jester could again induce him to break. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• So saying, he turned back to the mansion, attended by the Jester. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• A fool by right of descent, answered the Jester; I am Wamba, the son of Witless, who was the son of Weatherbrain, who was the son of an Alderman. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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