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A Court Jester.—­Fuller thus describes one:  “Of this fellow, his body, downwards, was a fool, his head a knave, who did carefully note, and cunningly vent, by the privileges of his coat, many state-passages, uttering them, in a wary twilight, betwixt sport and earnest.”

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An Excellent Courtier.—­Sir Walter Raleigh speaks of Queen Elizabeth, when sixty years of age, “riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph,—­sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angell, sometime playing like Orpheus.”

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A Lock-et.—­Mark Scaliot, blacksmith, in the 20th of Queen Elizabeth, made a lock of eleven pieces of iron, steel, and brass, with a pipe key, and golden chain of forty-three links, which were hung round the neck of a flea.—­The animal, together with this burthen, weighed only one grain and a half.

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Oil.—­Both rape-oil and olive-oil were used in ancient cookery, as appears from the provision bought for Archbishop Warham’s dinner.

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