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 19, 2024.
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Of Healths.
A Dutch Ambassador to a
Protestant Prince of Ger∣many
passed through Geneva,
and invited to Supper all the
Professors of Learning, and
the best of the towne. But a∣bove
all hee applied himselfe to
Beza, as being a man famous for
his brave parts. Being set at
Supper he began in a great guilt
Bole of Wine▪ a Health to his
Prince, and chose Beza for his
pledger; who answered, hee
would doe him reason. The
Ambassador dranke all off,
but when it came to Beza▪ hee
onely sipt, and set by the 〈◊〉〈◊〉
descriptionPage 135
Wherat the Ambssador being
incensed sayd, Sir, you vnder∣vallue
my Prince, and doe mee
wrong, in that you promised to
pledge me, which Beza denying
why, sayd the Ambassador, did
not you promise to doe me rea∣son?
I did so, repli'd Beza, but
there is a distinction, I see, to
be made betweene your doing
reason, and mine, for yours lies
in the bottome, and mine in the
brimme.
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