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Shakespeare Jest-Books: A Hundred Mery Talys

by W. Carew Hazlitt

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¶ Of Him That Vsed to Cal His Servant the Kinge of Foles. Ix

¶ There was a man that had a dulle lumpisshe felow to his seruant, wherfore he vsed commonly to call him the kinge of fooles. The felow at laste waxed angry in his minde to be alway so called and sayde to his mayster: I wolde that I were the kinge of foles: for then no man coulde compare with me in largenes of kingedome, and also you shulde be my subiect. By this one may perceiue, that to moch of one thing is not good: many one calleth an other fole, and is more fole him selfe.

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