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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A Knight in Warwickshire, that was very ho∣spitable, especially at Christmas; when he always invited all his tenants to dinner, which said Knight had always a Jackanapes tied at the parlor door, and as the countrey women came in, he would snatch at their petticoats, and then grin in their faces: which a discreet woman observing, ask'd what it was; 'twas told her he was a Jackanapes: with that as she came by the parlor door, she makes him a great courtesie, and says, By'r leave, good Ma∣ster Jan, an, apes, with that he pluckt and grin'd at her more than all the rest, fie, fie, says she, you don't do well truly Sir to grin and jear at an honest woman, whose husband has paid Scott and lott in the parish this twentie years, and I am sure I am old enough to be your Mother, indeed you are to blame.