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A Welshman rideing with a charge of money behind him, was set upon by a thief, who bade him deliver immediatly; or (drawing a Pistol) said, he would make it bounce through him; says
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.
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- Burton, Robert, 1577-1640.
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her so, said the Welshman, why then her had better give her money, that is her masters, and spare her life, that is her own, and thereupon de∣livered. Now pray Sir, said the Welshman, since her hath her money, let her hear one pounce for it; for her never heard the pounce of a cun. The good natured Thief, to satisfie the curiosity of the Welsh∣man, (whom he look't on as a verie silly fellow) discharged his pistol, which Ecchoed in many pla∣ces, Cuds splutter nails, said the Welshman, it was a gallant pounce, and there was manie little pounces too; good her Urship let her have one pounce more for her money, and her will be satis∣fied: So the Thief discharged the other; at which the Welshman seem'd better pleased than before, and ask'd if he had no more pounces; no, said the Thief, I have no more. No, said the Welshman, then her has one pounce in store, which her will make pounce through her immediatly, if her deli∣ver not her money back presently, and so forced the thief to re-deliver.