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 15, 2024.

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32.

A Gentleman being drown'd in Oxford, his Tutor sent a mes∣sēger for his Father (who dwelt a hundred miles off) to come to the funerall of his only Son. The messenger ariving at his Fathers house, found that hee was dead also; whereupon hee returned in all hast back, and

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when he came to Oxford, said to the Tutor; Sir, the Son may now, if he will go, to his fathers Funerall; for he is dead also.

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