Tarltons jests Drawne into these three parts. 1 His court-witty iests. 2 His sound city iests. 3 His countrey pretty iests. Full of delight, wit, and honest mirth.
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Tarltons jests Drawne into these three parts. 1 His court-witty iests. 2 His sound city iests. 3 His countrey pretty iests. Full of delight, wit, and honest mirth.
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London :: Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland] for Andrew Crook, and are to be sold in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Beare,
1638.
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English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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"Tarltons jests Drawne into these three parts. 1 His court-witty iests. 2 His sound city iests. 3 His countrey pretty iests. Full of delight, wit, and honest mirth." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13376.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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Tarltons desire of enough for money.
TArlton comming into a Market towne bought Oates for his horse, and desired enough for money: the man said. You shall, Sir and gaue him two halfe pecks for one. Tarlton thought his Horse should that night fare largely, and comes to him with this Rime:
Iack Nag, he brag, and lustie braue it,I have enough for mony, and thou shalt have it.
But when Iack Nag smelt to them, they were so musty, that he would none (God thanke you, Master) which Tarl∣ton séeing, runnes into the Market, and would slash and cut. But til the next Market day the fellow was not to be found, and before then Tarlton must be gone.
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