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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A Foolish woman seeing her Hen (having sat her full time) did not hatch her Egges, desired her next neigh∣bour to tell her the reason of it, and withall how she should get them hatch'd, who told her that shee must put them in a Cuck∣olds cappe: whereupon shee

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went to a man she well knew to borrow his hat, not sticking to tell him the cause of her request, whereat hee being netled beate her soundly; Notwithstanding this beating shee went to ano∣ther, and another of her neigh∣bours, by whom shee was like∣wise well swadled; with which being madded she ranne home in a Pet, and swore she wonld have a Cuckold of her owne ere night, and be beholding to nere a raskall of them all.

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