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Jesters were licenced fools, meaning that they had licence to do want they wanted and get away with it. Jesters' tricks were often of an intellectual type. For example, one of the kings of Scotland noticed that the king signed official documents without reading them. He drew up a document under which the king abdicated royal authority to the jester for a period of two weeks. The king signed it, and the jester made his trick known.

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