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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Subject terms
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 18, 2024.
Pages
17.
One relating to certaine
friends of his vvhere hee had
supt the night before, and how
hard he & the company dranke;
said, I never tippl'd so hard
in my life, and a great vvhile I
bore my drinke well, but at the
length finding I was so fox'd
that I could not stand▪ I tooke
my cloake, & ran home as hard
as I could drive.
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