The Ideot is wittie to do the poor man right.
A poor begger in Paris being very hungry
Versatile ingenium, The Wittie companion, or Jests of all sorts. From citie and countrie, court and universitie. : With an account of the life of the laughing philosopher Democritus of Abder̀a. / By Democritus Junior.
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- Versatile ingenium, The Wittie companion, or Jests of all sorts. From citie and countrie, court and universitie. : With an account of the life of the laughing philosopher Democritus of Abder̀a. / By Democritus Junior.
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- Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
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- Amsterdam, :: Printed by Stephen Swart, at the crowned Bible, near the Exchange.,
- Anno 1679.
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stay'd so long in a cooks shop, who was dishing up meat, till his stomach was satisfied merely with the smell thereof: upon which account the chole∣ric cook demanded payment of him: the poor man denied it, and the controversie was referr'd to the deciding of the next man that should pass by, which chanced to be the most notorious Ideot in the whole citie: he on the relation of the matter to the amazement of all persons, most sagaciously and wittiely determin'd, that the poor mans money should be put between two emtie dishes, and the cook should be recompensed with the gingling of the poor mans money, as he was satisfied with the only smell of the cooks meat.