The Jester

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge that The Jester is, in all ways, a work of fiction, an entertainment, and while painstaking care has been paid to historical detail and times, now and then a fact has been stretched or a truth bent for the sake of the story.

Thanks to H. D. Miller of Yale University for his scholarly, yet always anecdotal, reading of the manuscript. And also to Mary Jordan, who kept this project on the right track at all times.

And most of all, thanks to Sue and Lynn, whose warmth and laughter and spirit found its way onto many pages of this book. And to our kids, Kristen and Matt and Nick and Jack, in the hope that the sound of laughter will never fail to be a guiding companion and a cherished friend in their lives.