Modern Day Jesters
- Jesse Bogdonoff (b. 1955), court jester and financial advisor of Taufa'ahau Tupou IV
- Nigel Roder (b. 1967), aka Kester the Jester, briefly designated the official State Jester of England in 2004
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“I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,—those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.”
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With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,
Soon kindled and soon burnt, carded his state,
Mingled his royalty with cap’ring fools.”
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