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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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Many sitting together at din∣ner, one of them complain'd of the scarcitie of money; how that heretofore hee could have taken up an hundred pounds upon his bare word; that now if he were to be hang'd he knew not where to borrow five pounds; one of the company said hee thanked God that for his part he need not complaine; for quoth he, I have of late met with an honest Scrivener that will lend me at any time twen∣ty pounds upon my own Bond without Scrip or Scrowle.