Nugæ venales, or, Complaisant companion being new jests, domestick and forreign, bulls, rhodomontados, pleasant novels and miscellanies.
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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 great noise to little purpose.
IN the latter end of Queen Elizabeths Reign, there was a great rumour of an Invasion, where upon great numbers of Horse and Foot were rais'd about London, insomuch, that the whole Kingdom was terribly affrighted; but all coming to nothing, a Countrey Gentleman then in the City askt his Friend, to what end was all that Mustering in London and Middle∣sex. To what end (quoth the other?) why to Mile-End; for there was the general Muster. And to what end were so ma∣ny Barges, and Liters sent down to block up the Thames? To what end? why to Gravesend, quoth the other. I but said the Gentleman to what end was the great hurley-burley by Land and Water? To
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what end (quoth the other?) why in troth as far as I understand to no end at all.
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