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 23, 2025.
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TWo learned good. fellowes drinking a pipe of Tobacco, it being almost out∣that he that drunke last did partly feele the ashes to come hot to his lippes; giuing the pipe to his friende, said, Ashes to ashes: the other taking the pipe and (being of a quick apprehension, threw it out to the dunghill saying, Earth to earth.
Thus wit with wit agrees like cake & cheeseBoth sides are gainers, neither side doth lese〈◊〉〈◊〉 begets conceit, iest, iest doth fatherAnd butter falne to 〈◊〉〈◊〉, doth somthing gather,
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