Of one who lost his nose with the French Pox.
THe Pox having eaten a fellowes nose quite off, the scab forsaking that part, had an ambition to take the circum∣ference of his face, and begin∣ning
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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at one eare, went round by his chin till it reached the o∣ther. A simple fellow espying it, and taking it for a Ring-worme, said to his companion. Didst thou ever see a Ring-worme runne about so? to which the other answered, thou art a foole, it must needs goe about when the bridge is bro∣ken downe.