Of two Gentlemen, and an Hostesse.
TWo Gentlemen being in a Taverne, bespake of the Hostesse a Legge of Porke
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 May 4, 2024.
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against a prefixed day, and bade her powder it throughly. In obedience to their command shee spared no salt, and made it so briny, that it was able to fire a pallat of Ice: Well, the day being come, and the company met; one of the Gentlemen longing to tast it cut a great slash, but the first bit was no sooner in his mouth, then hee spit it out againe, and threw the dish with the meat over his head, crying out with as loude a voyce as men doe fire: I wil∣led the salt Bitch, said hee, to corne mee well a Legge of Porke, and she hath served in a limme of Lots wife.