Of a Taylors Bill.
A Taylor who worked to an Usurer, yet stood boūd to him for money, brought him
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 18, 2024.
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an unreasonable Bill, for which he vow'd to be reveng'd. The Bond wherin the Taylour was bound •••• the Usurer being due, the Taylor came to entreate further day, and that hee might continue it upon the old Bond, to whom the Usurer said, Lord that you should entreat when you may command; whereup∣on the Taylor departed well contented houlding his sute granted. But not long after hee heard that the Usurer had sued him to an out-lary, wherewith being much incensed hee came to the Usurer, and asked him why he had dealt so dishonestly by him, to whom he sayd, I did it onely to shew you the diffe∣rence betweene a Taylors and a Lawyrs bill.