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.

Of a fellow who had a shrew to his wife.

THe spaniards haue a tale of two felows who came to Heaven gates to demand en∣trance vpon their first knock. S. Peter came to the doore and asked what they would have, to whom one of them answered that he desired entrance. Then S. Peter asked him if he had past Purgatory, to whom he answe∣red no, but that he had a scold∣ing wife who was to him a pur∣gatory, nay Hell it selfe. Alas poore man said S. Peter. Enter in peace. The other that stood behinde, and heard all their dis∣course, thought with himselfe that now he knew the way hee

would surely get in too. Wher∣fore he knockt, and when Saint Peter came, hee askt this fellow as he did the other, whither or no hee had past Purgatory, to whom the man answered nega∣tiuely; but withall affirmed that hee had beene husband to three wives, the arrantest scolds the world could produce. A way, thou idle fellow, repli'd Saint Peter, here is no place for fooles; implying that hee should have taken warning by the first.