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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Of a Constable.

A Constable examining a drunken Captaine what hee made out of his lodging so late, and receiving from him a contemptible answere, sent him away to prison. The Captaine intreated his guard to have him backe to the Constable, pro∣mising to give him a submissive satisfaction. Wherewith they being moved, carried him back

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to their Master; whom hee no sooner saw, but pretending to whisper to him, hee tooke him by the eares; and pulling his head close to him, bit of the end of his nose. For this uncivill fact being carried to Jayle, and the next day brought before the Justice, before whom the Constable shewed a huge red bottle nose full of whelkes. O cri'd the Captain to the Justice, It is punishment enough to have had that putrified nose in my mouth, & with that before them all lai'd up his stomack.

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