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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King James being in his progress at Woodstock in Oxfordshire, the King finding it to rain so one morning that he could not ride a hunting; had got some of the Nobility and Gentry together, resol∣ving to be merry: And one humour was, that the King haveing that morning a fine curvetting Horse given him, which kind of horse he never lik'd in his life; told them that he that could tell the greatest lie should have that Horse: So one told one lie, and another another; and several had told others, that there was great laughing; and just in the midst of this mirth in comes a countrey fellow complaining to the King that some of his servants had wrong'd him: Well, well, says the King, we'll hear you of that anon: Come, come hither amongst us, and you must know that he that can tell the greatest lie shall have that Horse: Truly Sir, says he, and't please your Grace I never told a lie in all my life: With that says the King, Give him the Horse, give him the Horse; for I am sure that is the greatest lie that has been told to day.