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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Of two men stunge with
Gnats.
TWo men lying together
in a Moone-shine might,
they were both so extreamely
stung with Gnats that they
could not take their rest: Yet
at length one of them of a
tougher skinne then the other
fell asleepe. The other lying
still awake, and being still tor∣mented,
bethought himselfe
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how hee might secure his face
from the Gnats; At length he
remembred hee had beene a
Whisler in a Ma•••• the Christ∣mas
before, and that hee had a
Vizard in his Trunke. Hee
therefore rose, put it on, and
presently fell asleepe. His bed-fellow
rising to make water,
and beholding such a face in
bed with him, ran toward the
Chamber doore, and cried out,
The Divell; the other awake∣ned
with the noise, and hea∣ring
him name the Divell, (for∣getting
hee had his Vizard on)
made after him, & both leaping
downe the staires, lay at the
bottome of them well bruised,
and bewrayed till morning.
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