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 the same Captaine Norris.

THis Captaine being of a dwarfish stature, rid out one day alone to discover the enemy. My Lord of Essex his Generall hearing of it, and knowing the rashnesse and in∣discretion of the man, said to

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the standers by. The enemy will take this Urchion, and crampe him till hee confesse all the secrets of our Army; where∣fore halfe a dozen of you ride severall wayes, that you may finde, and fetch him in. They obeyed, and after a long search one of them found him, and told the manner how. My Lord, said he; after a tedious enquiry after him, I lighted on a shepheard, who told mee hee saw no man passe that way, but that a horse an houre before went by with a Hart at the sad∣dle pummell, by which relati∣on I knew it was litle Norris, and riding after him brought him back.

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