| The fool was a very humble person, haunting kitchen and scullery, messing almost with the dogs, and liable, when malapert, to a whipping. |
| One morning, his barber, a malapert of the old comedies, ventured to ask him what he was thinking of. |
| Another word of that kind, and I'll show you how malapert lads are treated. |
| Go to, sir, know yourself, or the master of the household shall make you know you are liable to the scourge as a malapert boy. |
| In a fury, she said that he was too malapert to give her such answer, and affirmed that both he and they should repent it. |
| Art thou not ashamed to take sides with this malapert boy, feeding his passion and folly with thy crazy prophecies? |
