The Booke of bulls, baited with two centuries of bold jests, and nimble-lies, or, A Combat betweene sence and non-sence, being at strife who shall infuse most myrth into the gentle-reader a treatise in variety of pleasure second to none ever yet printed in the English-tongue : wherein is contained nothing alreadie published / collected by A.S. Gent.

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The Booke of bulls, baited with two centuries of bold jests, and nimble-lies, or, A Combat betweene sence and non-sence, being at strife who shall infuse most myrth into the gentle-reader a treatise in variety of pleasure second to none ever yet printed in the English-tongue : wherein is contained nothing alreadie published / collected by A.S. Gent.
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Imprinted at London :: For Daniel Frere and are to be sold at the Bull in Little-Brittaine,
1636.
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English wit and humor.
Bulls, Colloquial.
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"The Booke of bulls, baited with two centuries of bold jests, and nimble-lies, or, A Combat betweene sence and non-sence, being at strife who shall infuse most myrth into the gentle-reader a treatise in variety of pleasure second to none ever yet printed in the English-tongue : wherein is contained nothing alreadie published / collected by A.S. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18367.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Page 6

12.

Two passing the street in a serious discourse, a dumbe man begg'd of them after his mute manner; Sirra said one of them to the dumbe man, can not men passe the streets about their bu∣sinesse, but you must thus di∣sturbe their conference, Get you gone, or ile set you pac∣king, and with that lifted up his foot to kick him; O fie, said his companion, will you kick a dumbe man? Is hee dumbe, re∣pli'd he, why did he not tell me so then?

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