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A Lord desired his Chaplain to write a copy of
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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verses on his Lady, who was a verie great shrew, it was promised but not performed, the Lord ask∣ing reason of his delay, said the Chaplain, What need you my Lord desire a copie, when you have the O∣riginal? my Ladie hearing thereof, caused the Chaplain to be discharged, and so he paid for his wit.