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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An ingenious young man that was set to a Borrding School to learn latine and to write, and after he had been there more than two years, his fa∣ther sent him a letter that he should write to him, that he might see how he had profited both in his

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learning and his writeing; and so very Scholastical∣ly directs his letter to his father thus, To my most obe∣dient Father, which is my Mothers Husband, at the house where they live: Says a man to him, They won't find the house by this direction: Puh, says he, no body but knows my fathers house, for if I were in the Town I could find it my self, and yet I have not been there this two years: and at the end he subscri∣bed thus, I cease ever to be your dutifull Son: and so forth.

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