With that came Sir Dinadan, and when he saw Sir Tristram wroth he list not to jape.
"Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table"
Thomas Malory
Mr. Mackie, passing with his orange partner, had repeated his jape about the Ruthless Boaz.
"The Story of Louie"
Oliver Onions
By no people but the Scots, perhaps, could this jape have been taken seriously, but, with a gravity that would have delighted Charles Lamb, Knox denounced the skit from the pulpit as a fabrication by the Father of Lies.
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang