Dulman and the Lords Ape.
A Certain Knight kept a Dulman to his Clerk, and having some occasion to write to the Lord chiefe Justice, he sent this Clerk with the Letter: who coming to the
Poor Robin's jests: or, The compleat jester Being a collection of several jests not heretofore published. Now newly composed and written by that well-known gentleman, Poor Robin, knight of the burnt island, and well-willer to the mathematicks. Together with the true and lively effigies of the said author. Licensed Feb. 2. 1666. Roger L'Estrange.
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- Poor Robin's jests: or, The compleat jester Being a collection of several jests not heretofore published. Now newly composed and written by that well-known gentleman, Poor Robin, knight of the burnt island, and well-willer to the mathematicks. Together with the true and lively effigies of the said author. Licensed Feb. 2. 1666. Roger L'Estrange.
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"Poor Robin's jests: or, The compleat jester Being a collection of several jests not heretofore published. Now newly composed and written by that well-known gentleman, Poor Robin, knight of the burnt island, and well-willer to the mathematicks. Together with the true and lively effigies of the said author. Licensed Feb. 2. 1666. Roger L'Estrange." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66707.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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chief Justice place, saw at the Gate an Ape sitting there in a coat made for him, as they use to apparel Apes for sport. The Clerk seeing one in such bravery, imagined it to be my Lord chief Justices Son, and therefore pulld off his Cap, and bowed very lowly un∣to it, saying, My Master commendeth him to my Lord your Father, and hath sent him here a Letter; The Ape took it, looked thereon, and afterward upon the man, mak∣ing many mocks and mows, as the property of Apes is to do: whereupon Dulman because he understood him not, went back again to his Master, saying he had delivered the Let∣ter to my Lord chief Justices Son, who sat at the Gate in a fair coat. His Master asked him what answer he gave him, he said he gave him an an••wer, but it was in French, or Latine, for he understood it not; but Sir, said he, you need not fear your business, for I saw by his looks that he would do your errand to my Lord his Father.