Of a red-headed Host, and his more red-headed Guest.
A Guest with a head and a beard fire red, gave to a red-headed Hoste twenty Crownes to keepe, but hee re∣demanded them within halfe an houre after, whom the Host
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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"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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asked the reason of his so sud∣den a comming for his money againe; to whom he answered, that his red head was the cause: Why said the Host, your head is redder then mine; I marry, repli'd the other, that makes me judge of you by my selfe.