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Those kind of objections, as they are full of a verie idle easinesse, since there is nothing of so sacred a majestie, but that an itching toong may rub it selfe upon it, so deserve they no other answer, but in steed of laughing at the jeast, to laugh at the jeaster.

Defence of Poesie 1992

For what is it to make folkes gape at a wretched begger, and a beggerly Clowne: or against lawe of hospitalitie, to jeast at straungers, because they speake not English so well as we do?

Defence of Poesie 1992

I did it of my self, and had rather be a citizen of Rome, than a tributary king, and now hope to live so, as to be no man's jeast.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Plume adds, "Sir John Mennes saw once his old father in his shop -- a merry cheeked old man that said, 'Will was a good honest fellow, but he darest have crackt a jeast with him at any time.'"

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

Let him that can, attaine to this advantage: Herein consists the true and soveraigne liberty, that affords us meanes wherewith to jeast and make a scorne of force and injustice, and to deride imprisonment, gives, 39 or fetters.

That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

_Cotgrave_ (1611), _Ruade seiche_, a drie bob, jeast or nip.

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

Let him that can, attaine to this advantage: Herein consists the true and soveraigne liberty, that affords us meanes wherewith to jeast and make a scorne of force and injustice, and to deride imprisonment, gives [Footnote: Gyves, shackles] or fetters.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

For other new comers, I leave them to the mercie of those painted monsters, who, I doubt not, will drive the best-minded to despise them; for the rest, it skills not though they make a jeast at them .... "

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897