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 11, 2024.

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XVIII.

I Had one day a quarrel with a French Gentleman, who defied me, saying, draw if thou darest, con∣sidering with my self that I am all courage, refused so to do, because the French being cold, and without choler, I might have given him five hundred Thrusts, and as many slashes, without killing him; but as for me who am wholly filled, and made up of Courage and Choler, with the least blow in the World, he might have sent me to the Devil.

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