Nugæ venales, or, Complaisant companion being new jests, domestick and forreign, bulls, rhodomontados, pleasant novels and miscellanies.

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Title
Nugæ venales, or, Complaisant companion being new jests, domestick and forreign, bulls, rhodomontados, pleasant novels and miscellanies.
Author
Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
Publication
London :: Printed by W.D.
1675.
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Rogues and vagabonds.
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"Nugæ venales, or, Complaisant companion being new jests, domestick and forreign, bulls, rhodomontados, pleasant novels and miscellanies." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43170.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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A mad Wooer well sitted.

ONE Wooing a Widow, more to satisfie his Friends, than to oblige his own inclination; told her, that he had three qualities which she must be acquainted with before he married her. The first was, when he went abroad, and returned home he should be angry with∣out a cause; Secondly, he must eat his meat alone; And Thirdly, that he should lye with her but once a Month. If this be all (said she) I care not; for as to the first,

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you say, you shall be angry without a cause, I will take came to give you cause e∣nough, never fear. And for the second in eating your Meat alone, do and spare not; but it shall be after I have din'd. And as for you Lying with me but once a Month, take your course; if you will not, another shall, for in that time, I shall have a Months mind to another.

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