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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A Gentleman lodging in a strange Inn, have∣ing store of money in his pockets, put his breeches under his bolster, when he went to bed to secure them; but the next morning (haveing gotten a pretty dose over night) he had quite forgotten where he had bestowed them; and haveing fruitlesly searched a prettie while, despairing of finding them, he called for the chamberlain, asking him if he

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knew what was become of them? Sir, said the cham∣berlain, are you sure that you brought any in with you? Why, quoth the Gentleman, do you think, that I came without breeches? Sir, said he, if you are sure that you brought them with you, you had best search your pockets, and I question not but you will find them there.

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