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
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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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 Page [unnumbered] 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?
