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 17, 2024.
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An antient harmless Gentleman (and there∣fore harmless, because he was toothless) being at breakfast with some others, among which was a young, brisk and smart Lady that sate next to him; and among other dishes of meat, there was a lusty coller of brawn, and the old man haveing a piece of it on his trencher, which you know is a slippery meat, and he putting a piece of it into his chops, it quickly slipt out again upon the ladies trencher a∣fore-said; She presently fell a laughing, and gave him a pin to fasten his mouth, that no more should come out in that manner; and with laughing so heartily at the conceit, made an escape behind; which the old man hearing, presently gave her the
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pin back again: telling her that place was the most fit to be fastned.
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