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" God will pay thee ten fold ; he is my surety — arrest him — for, by my troth, hang mee when I pay thee. The king laught at the jest, and so did the cardinall for a shew, but it grieved him to jest away ten pound so : yet worse tricks then this Will... "
The life and death of Thomas Wolsey, cardinall. Repr., with an intr. and notes - Page 95
by Thomas Storer - 1826
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Fools and Jesters: With a Reprint of Robert Armin's Nest of Ninnies. 1608

Robert Armin - Fools and jesters - 1842 - 96 pages
...the poore God will pay thee ten fold ; he is my surety — arrest him — for, by my troth, hang mee when I pay thee. The king laught at the jest, and...grieved him to jest away ten pound so : yet worse tricks then this Will Sommers serued him after, for indeede hee could neuer abide him, and the forfeiture...
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Publications, Volume 10

Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1842 - 100 pages
...the poore God will pay thee ten fold ; he is my surety — arrest him — for, by my troth, hang mee when I pay thee. The king laught at the jest, and...grieved him to jest away ten pound so : yet worse tricks then this Will Sommers serued him after, for indeede hee could neuer abide him, and the forfeiture...
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Early Prose and Poetical Tracts: Illustrative of the Drama and Literature of ...

English literature - 1853 - 828 pages
...the poore God will pay thee ten fold ; he is my surety — arrest him — for, by my troth, hang mee when I pay thee. The king laught at the jest, and...grieved him to jest away ten pound so : yet worse tricks then this Will Sommers serued him after, for indeede hee could neuer abide him, and the forfeiture...
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The History of Court Fools, Volume 394

Dr. Doran (John) - Fools and jesters - 1858 - 414 pages
...The King laughed, and the Cardinal feigned to be merry, " but it grieved him to give away ten pounds so; yet worse tricks than this Will Sommers served him after, for indeed he (the Cardinal) could never abide him." Will was not above human infirmities ; he was jealous, like...
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The History of Court Fools, Volume 394

Dr. Doran (John) - Fools and jesters - 1858 - 406 pages
...The King laughed, and the Cardinal feigned to be merry, " but it grieved him to give away ten pounds so; yet worse tricks than this Will Sommers served him after, for indeed he (the Cardinal) could never abide him." ,'' Will was not above human infirmities ; he was jealous, like...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 25

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1898 - 548 pages
...wealth nor wit, and what thou lendest to the poore God will pay thee ten fold ; . . . The king lauglit at the jest, and so did the cardinall for a shew, but it grieved him to jest away ten pound so. The precise date of Sommers's death is not known, but it is thought that he died not long before Armin's...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 25

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1898 - 536 pages
...have neyther wealth nor wit, and what thou lendest to the poore God will pay thee ten fold ; . . . The king laught at the jest, and so did the cardinall...shew, but it grieved him to jest away ten pound so. The precise date of Sommers's death is not known, but it is thought that he died not long before Armin's...
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Fools Are Everywhere: The Court Jester Around the World

Beatrice K. Otto - History - 2001 - 444 pages
...if thy stony heart will not yeeld it so, saue thy head by denying thy word, and lend it mee. . . . The king laught at the jest, and so did the cardinall...grieved him to jest away ten pound so: yet worse tricks then this Will Sommers serued him after, for indeede hee could neuer abide him, and the forfeiture...
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