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 Countrey fellow seeing the Arch-Bishop of Cologn rideing in the fields with a great retinue compleatly armed, laught out aloud; being ask'd his reason for so doing, he answered, Because he wondred that St Peter, Christs Vicar on earth, be∣ing exceeding poor, had left his successor so rich that his train should be more furnished with sword∣men, than gown-men. The Arch-Bishop hear∣ing this, and being willing that the Fellow should have better knowledg of him in his place, and di∣gnity, told him, that he was not only Arch-Bi∣shop, but a Duke also, and that as a Duke he rode with such an armed train of men, but when he was in Church, he was attended on as an Arch-Bishop, Sir, said this poor fellow, I pray tell me, when my Lord Duke shall be with the Devil, what will be∣come of the Arch-Bishop.