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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Title: 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.
Author: Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
Publication: Amsterdam, :: Printed by Stephen Swart, at the crowned Bible, near the Exchange.,; Anno 1679.
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Subject terms: Democritus.; English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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The Gardiners place of a Colledg being void, a certain person put in for it; the Dean asked him if he understood Gardening? No trulie, replied he, but I will hire one to do the work. Nay then, said he, you cannot expect to have the place▪ and so sent him away. But as he was going through the Court, he calls after him, Now it comes in my mind, says he, there is a place void, which I think would do ve∣ry well for you; and that is the Greek Professor's. Alas Sir, said the man, I understand not that lan∣guage. Oh but, replied the Dean, you may hire one to do the work for you.