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.
Author
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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Democritus.
English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A95862.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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My Lord Maynard kept a fool, whose name was Iack Franck, that went in a py'd calve-skin suit;

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he being one day in the high-way, a Gallant came rideing by all bedawbed with silver-lace, who spy∣ing Iack, asked him whose fool he was: said Iack, I am my Lord Mainards fool: and now I have told you whose fool I am, pray tell me whose fool you are.

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