ABSTRACT
NO fools are born among the northern peoples, or very few who are unable to exercise the natural powers of reasoning, I mean fellows who can display their innate stupidity with a certain acquired cunning after the fashion of jesters.1 It is for this reason that such come to those regions over the sea from Germany in order to make a profit, or through a desire to work some treachery; either they arrive in the company of stranger princes, or are hired with foreign money.
