Bull, beare, and horse, cut, curtaile, and longtaile. VVith tales, and tales of buls, clenches, and flashes. As also here and there a touch of our beare-garden-sport; with the second part of the merry conceits of wit and mirth. Together with the names of all the bulls and beares
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- Bull, beare, and horse, cut, curtaile, and longtaile. VVith tales, and tales of buls, clenches, and flashes. As also here and there a touch of our beare-garden-sport; with the second part of the merry conceits of wit and mirth. Together with the names of all the bulls and beares
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- Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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- London :: Printed by M. Parsons, for Henry Gosson, and are to be sold at his shop on London Bridge,
- 1638.
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"Bull, beare, and horse, cut, curtaile, and longtaile. VVith tales, and tales of buls, clenches, and flashes. As also here and there a touch of our beare-garden-sport; with the second part of the merry conceits of wit and mirth. Together with the names of all the bulls and beares." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13429.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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This Dedication is directed, to his well-Affected and much Respe∣cted, his often Approved, and truly beloved, Mr. Thomas Godfrey, Kee∣per of the Game for Beares, Bulls, and Dogges.
KInd friend, I am sure you can defend me from being bitten with your Beares, though not from being back-bitten by Envie; you can stave me, and save me, from the Goring of your Bulls, but there are too many heards of other Horned Beasts to But at my Inventions, and tosse my harm∣lesse
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meaning, as their empty Iudge∣ments, and Witlesse fancies are en∣clin'd; howsoever I am resolv'd to love you, and not to Respect them I am glad that you can say that an ex∣cessive time of charge is past with you, and I hope for better dayes and times. I have touched here and there merrily upon the Game, but so farre from offence, that I doe expect that it will be pleasing both to the Wise, and to the Indifferent Readers. And mee thinkes very fools should not be an∣gry with it, for I have thrust in a great many Bables to please them to If any thing doe seeme distastefull in it, my Comfort is, that a Wise man will not set his Wit to mine, and be offended but if a Foole be angry, then I will
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not set my Wit to his, and take excep∣tions. And thus with my best wishes to you and yours, I remaine a poore friend to you and yours,
Iohn Taylor.