Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost / by Iohn Taylor, water-poet.

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Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost / by Iohn Taylor, water-poet.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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Printed at London :: For Henrie Gosson, and are to sold at Christ-Church gate,
1628.
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English wit and humor.
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"Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost / by Iohn Taylor, water-poet." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13520.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 25, 2025.

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A Fellow hauing more drinke then wit, in a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 euening made a foolish vow to take the wall of as many as hée met be∣twixt the Temple-bar and Charing crosse, and comming néere the Sauoy, where stood a Poste a little distance from the wall: the drunkard tooke it for a man, and would haue the wall, beginning to quarrell and giue the Poste foule words: at which a man came by, and asked the matter, and whom he spake to: he answered hee would 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the wall of that fellow that stood so

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stifly there: my friend said the other, that is a Poste, you must giue him the way: Is it so, said the fellow, a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vpon 〈◊〉〈◊〉, why did he not blow his horne?

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