¶ Of Titus and the Iester. CXI
¶ Suetonius sheweth that Titus the father prouoked a scoffer, that stode iesting with euery body, that he shulde lyke wyse saye somewhat to hym. I woll, sayde the scoffer, after ye haue done youre easement. He iested at the emperours countinance; he loked alway as one that streyned hym selfe.
On suche a visaged man writeth Martiall:
Utere lactucis, ac mollibus utere maluis.
Nam faciem durum Phebe cacantis habes.