“ Fools are we all indeed that serve them, and fitter subjects for their scorn and laughter, than if we were born with but half our wits. ”
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1820). copy citation
| Author | Walter Scott |
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| Source | Ivanhoe |
| Topic | laughter wit |
| Date | 1820 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/82/82-h/82-h.htm |
Context
“My faithful slave is murdered, and my goods are taken for a prey—and Wamba—where is Wamba? Said not some one he had gone forth with Gurth?”
Oswald replied in the affirmative.
“Ay? why this is better and better! he is carried off too, the Saxon fool, to serve the Norman lord. Fools are we all indeed that serve them, and fitter subjects for their scorn and laughter, than if we were born with but half our wits. But I will be avenged,” he added, starting from his chair in impatience at the supposed injury, and catching hold of his boar-spear; “I will go with my complaint to the great council; I have friends, I have followers—man to man will I appeal the Norman to the lists;”
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