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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Title: 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.
Author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
Publication: Printed at London :: For Henrie Gosson, and are to sold at Christ-Church gate,; 1628.
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Subject terms: English wit and humor.
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A Graue discréet Gentleman hauing a comely wife, whose beauty and frée behauiour did 〈◊〉〈◊〉 her honesty into suspi∣tion, by whom he had a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 almost at mans estate, of very dissolute and wauton cariage: I muse, said one, that a man of such stayd and moderate grauity should haue a sonne of such a contrary and fro∣ward disposition. Sir, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 another, the reason is that his pate is stuffed with his mothers wit, that there is no roome for any of his fathers wisedome: besides the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of her heeles is gotten into her sonnes braines.