"Gentlemen," says the young man, very solemn, "I will reveal it to you, for I may have confidence in you. By rights I am a duke!"
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"I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here I am, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded..."
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Jim pitied him ever so much, and so did I. We tried to comfort him but he said it warn't much use...said if we was a mind to acknowledge him...said we ought to bow...and say "Your Grace," or "My Lord"...and one of us ought to wait on him at dinner, and do any little thing for him he wanted done.
...All through dinner Jim stood around and waited on him, and says, "Will yo' Grace have some o' dis, or some o' dat?"...
But the old man got pretty silent...and didn't look pretty comfortable over all that petting that was going on around the duke...
"Looky here, Bilgewater...you ain't the only person that's had troubles like that."
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"Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!"
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"Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled, trampled-on and sufferin' rightful King of France"...So we set in, like we done before with the duke...always called him "Your Majesty," and waited on him first at meals...
...
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing...
...
If I never learnt nothing else from pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884).
"A strange wandering horde of people...came out of eastern lands...They...have chieftains among them, that is a Duke and a Count..."
-Chronica novella, Hermann Cornerus (1435), quoted in The Gypsies, Angus Fraser (1992).
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Two days later [August 24, 1419] "Andrew, Duke of Little Egypt," with 120 or more followers, arrived at St. Laurent, [France]
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Theee months go by, and then we meet a Duke Andrew and a company of Gypsies once more, in the Low Countries.
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...[I]n January 1420 the civic accounts of Brussels show that the band led by "the Duke of Little Egypt, names Andries" relieved the burghers of a quantity of beer and wine, bread, a cow, four sheep and 25 gold coins. Then, in March 1420, the accounts of Deventer record a donation...to "the Lord Andreas, Duke of Little Egypt...25 florins in cash, together with bread, beer, herrings and straw; the town also bore the cost of cleaning out the barn in which they slept, and of conducting them eastwards to Goor.
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...a duke and a count leading a company of "Egyptians" appeared at Bruges in Flanders in September 1421...On 30 September 1421 [at] Tournai..."Sir Miguel, prince of Latinghem in Egypt" was presented with 12 gold coins, bread and a barrel of beer...
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Duke Michael...
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Duke Andrea...
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a lord from Little Egypt named Count Jehan...
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Count Nicolao...
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Count Jacobo
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Duke Paulo
...
Count Tomas of Little Egypt...
...
"that thievish race of men, the dregs and bilge-water...under their king Zindelo..." (emphasis added) Bavarian Chronicle, Aventus (1522)-Fraser.
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"noble prince messire Thomas, comte de Gipte la Minor"...
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Count Barthelemy...
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Duke of the nation of Bohemia...
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Count Jean-Baptiste Rolland of Little Egypt...
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Colmar [France]...in 1450...granted Count Philip a safe-conduct certifying that he and his company had comported themselves in a worthy and Christian manner.
...
"I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here I am, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded..."
...
Jim pitied him ever so much, and so did I. We tried to comfort him but he said it warn't much use...said if we was a mind to acknowledge him...said we ought to bow...and say "Your Grace," or "My Lord"...and one of us ought to wait on him at dinner, and do any little thing for him he wanted done.
...All through dinner Jim stood around and waited on him, and says, "Will yo' Grace have some o' dis, or some o' dat?"...
But the old man got pretty silent...and didn't look pretty comfortable over all that petting that was going on around the duke...
"Looky here, Bilgewater...you ain't the only person that's had troubles like that."
...
"Bilgewater, I am the late Dauphin!"
...
"Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled, trampled-on and sufferin' rightful King of France"...So we set in, like we done before with the duke...always called him "Your Majesty," and waited on him first at meals...
...
It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing...
...
If I never learnt nothing else from pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1884).
"A strange wandering horde of people...came out of eastern lands...They...have chieftains among them, that is a Duke and a Count..."
-Chronica novella, Hermann Cornerus (1435), quoted in The Gypsies, Angus Fraser (1992).
...
Two days later [August 24, 1419] "Andrew, Duke of Little Egypt," with 120 or more followers, arrived at St. Laurent, [France]
...
Theee months go by, and then we meet a Duke Andrew and a company of Gypsies once more, in the Low Countries.
...
...[I]n January 1420 the civic accounts of Brussels show that the band led by "the Duke of Little Egypt, names Andries" relieved the burghers of a quantity of beer and wine, bread, a cow, four sheep and 25 gold coins. Then, in March 1420, the accounts of Deventer record a donation...to "the Lord Andreas, Duke of Little Egypt...25 florins in cash, together with bread, beer, herrings and straw; the town also bore the cost of cleaning out the barn in which they slept, and of conducting them eastwards to Goor.
...
...a duke and a count leading a company of "Egyptians" appeared at Bruges in Flanders in September 1421...On 30 September 1421 [at] Tournai..."Sir Miguel, prince of Latinghem in Egypt" was presented with 12 gold coins, bread and a barrel of beer...
...
Duke Michael...
...
Duke Andrea...
...
a lord from Little Egypt named Count Jehan...
...
Count Nicolao...
...
Count Jacobo
...
Duke Paulo
...
Count Tomas of Little Egypt...
...
"that thievish race of men, the dregs and bilge-water...under their king Zindelo..." (emphasis added) Bavarian Chronicle, Aventus (1522)-Fraser.
...
"noble prince messire Thomas, comte de Gipte la Minor"...
...
Count Barthelemy...
...
Duke of the nation of Bohemia...
...
Count Jean-Baptiste Rolland of Little Egypt...
...
Colmar [France]...in 1450...granted Count Philip a safe-conduct certifying that he and his company had comported themselves in a worthy and Christian manner.
