The Complaisant companion, or, New jests, witty reparties, bulls, rhodomontado's, and pleasant novels

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The Complaisant companion, or, New jests, witty reparties, bulls, rhodomontado's, and pleasant novels
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London :: Printed by H.B. ...,
1674.
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Wit and humor.
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"The Complaisant companion, or, New jests, witty reparties, bulls, rhodomontado's, and pleasant novels." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34159.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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Page 73

On a shrewd curst wife:

TWo men walking through a Church-yard, one of them affirmed, that Hell was nothing else but the Grave, for Shool in the Hebrew signifies the Grave though it is translated Hell; the other having lately buried there a shrewd curst wife, pointing to her Grave, said, them one of the greatest Devils in Hell y heesre.

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