JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.
The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person.The widow-queen of Portugal
Had an audacious jester
Who entered the confessional
Disguised, and there confessed her.
"Father," she said, "thine ear bend down --
My sins are more than scarlet:
I love my fool -- blaspheming clown,
And common, base-born varlet."
"Daughter," the mimic priest replied,
"That sin, indeed, is awful:
The church's pardon is denied
To love that is unlawful.
"But since thy stubborn heart will be
For him forever pleading,
Thou'dst better make him, by decree,
A man of birth and breeding."
She made the fool a duke, in hope
With Heaven's taboo to palter;
Then told a priest, who told the Pope,
Who damned her from the altar!
That was a quote by Barel Dort. and in that poem, the queen confessed to the priest that she has fallen in love with her court jester. but the priest tells her it is a sin to fall in love with that court jester. but the queen is so in love with him and she makes the court jester a duke so she could marry him. but alas, the pope still did not allow her to marry the jester.
hmmm, maybe it is impossible for the court jester to end up with his princess
