Note 141:A — Chapter VI · (continued 2)
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Wit's Miserie and the World's Madnesse, 4to. 1599.—So necessary was a fool to the monarch and his courtiers, that Armin, in his Nest of Ninnies, 4to. 1608, describing Will Sommers, Henry the Eighth's fool, says,—
—————————————— "In all the Court Few men were more belov'd than was this Foole, Whose merry prate kept with the king much rule. When he was sad, the King and he would rime: Thus Will exiled sadnesse many a time."