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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?
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said, Whichwood Sir. Why that Wood (said the Gentleman) Which-wood Sir, Why that Wood I tell thee; he still said Which-wood; I think said the Gen∣tleman thou art as senseless as the Wood that grows there, it may be so replyed the other, But you know not Which-wood.ONe Gentleman desired another to drink more then he could bare, ad therefore he refused; the other swore if he did not drink off that glass he would run him through, nay, rather then that, said the other, I will run my self through, and pledge you afterwards, and so running through the door down stairs, left the other to pay the reckoning.A Man walking with a Pike-staff in his hand, it chanced that a Dog came running at him open mouth'd; hereupon he thrust the sharp end of the Pike down his throat, and killed him; the Dogs Master askt the fellow, why he did not save his Dog by striking him with the blunt end of the staff? So I would said he if he had run at me with his tail.0