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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An Apothecary in Oxford spoke to a Coun∣treyman, by way of jeer, to bring him some live rats, and he would give him eighteen pence a piece for them: and a fortnight after he brought them, and then the Apothecary told him that he was pro∣vided the day before: the country fellow seeing he was abused, was resolved to be quit with him: say∣ing, I am unwilling (seeing I have brought them) to carry them back again, and told him he would take three pence out in physick at some time or other; and so opened his bag and let them about the shop; which did so wh••sk up and down the Shelvs, that in a little space he broke him about 40 pots and glasses, and could never be rid of them since. Probatum est.