Will Sommers, the court's jester

Engraving of Will Sommers by Francis Delaram, 1615-1624 ‘As ‘all men were fools before God, and the foolishness of God was wiser than men’s wisdom’, fools could be considered holy, possessors of an essential goodness and simplicity that meant they were incapable of sin and conduits of the divine.’ Lipscomb (citing Erasmus’s The Praise of Folly, 1511) in All the King’s Fools, 2011 ..