The wise and ingenious companion, French and English, or, A collection of the wit of the illustrious persons, both ancient and modern containing their wise sayings, noble sentiments, witty repartees, jests and pleasant stories : calculated for the improvement and pleasure of the English and foreigners / by Mr. Boyer ...
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The wise and ingenious companion, French and English, or, A collection of the wit of the illustrious persons, both ancient and modern containing their wise sayings, noble sentiments, witty repartees, jests and pleasant stories : calculated for the improvement and pleasure of the English and foreigners / by Mr. Boyer ...
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Boyer, Abel, 1667-1729.
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London :: Printed by G.C. for Tho. Newborough ... and J. Nicholson ...,
1700.
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Wit and humor.
Anecdotes.
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"The wise and ingenious companion, French and English, or, A collection of the wit of the illustrious persons, both ancient and modern containing their wise sayings, noble sentiments, witty repartees, jests and pleasant stories : calculated for the improvement and pleasure of the English and foreigners / by Mr. Boyer ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28932.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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HEnry the Eighth King of England, being at odds with Francis I. King of France, resolv'd to send him an Ambassadour with a very haughty and threatning Message, and to that purpose made choice of Bishop Bonner, in whom he reposed great Confidence. The Bishop told him, that his Life would be in great danger, if he should o•…•…er such Language to so high-spirited a King as Fran∣cis the First. Be not afraid, said Henry VIII. for should the French King put you to Death, I would take off many a Head of those French Men that are here in my Power: I believe so, answer'd the Bishop, but of all those Heads, added he with a smile, none would fit my Shoulders so well as this, pointing to his own. This witty ans∣wer
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pleased the King, and made him reform the In∣structions of his Ambassador.
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