"But the King and Simon are to have private matters between them one day," he cried, shaking his fist at the mockers, himself half in mockery.
"Simon Dale"
Anthony Hope
Therefore the good and exemplary things and actions of the former ages, were reserued only to the historicall reportes of wise and graue men: those of the present time left to the fruition and iudgement of our sences: the future as hazards and incertaine euentes vtterly neglected and layd aside for Magicians and mockers to get their liuings by: such manner of men as by negligence of Magistrates and remisses of lawes euery countrie breedeth great store of.
"The Arte of English Poesie"
George Puttenham
From the moment that his guide left him dangers beset him, and those spirits called the mockers, which are the evil deeds of a man crying to Heaven, came crying about him from the dead white trees, breathing through the powdery air, whistling down the moonlight; so that to cheer him he called out again and again, like any heathen: "Keeper, O Keeper of the Kimash Hills!
"Parables Of A Province"
Gilbert Parker Last Updated: March 13, 2009