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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