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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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- 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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Chuch, only to bring her thither, and so to leave her with the apprentice to come home with her again: he haveing appointed that afternoon to be merry at Islington with some of his Comrades, who were to meet him there at the Katharine-wheel, every one of them so furnished with one thing or other, as to make up a lustie collation: As soon as his Mistress was in her Pew, he had like to have committed a grand mistake, instead of her Bible he was a going to deliver her his Islington Neats-tongue, which he had wrapt in a brown-paper; but as good fortune would have it, he recollected himself suddenly, re∣covered it again, and put it under his arm: She be∣ing almost angry ask'd him what was the reason he did not give her the bible, forsooth, he replied, that was mine, and so delivered her the bible in the green bag, and kept his in the brown paper.