Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M.

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Title: Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M.
Author: Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
Publication: London :: Printed for J. Sprint ... and G. Conyers ...,; 1697.
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Dionysius had a Son, who had violated a Lady of Syracusa. Upon which he ask∣ed him, with an angry Look, whether he had ever heard that in his Youthful Days he had committed such Actions. You were not, answered he, born a King's Son, as I am. Thou shalt never be a King's Father, replied the Tyrant. And so it proved in effect. For young Dionysius, being expel∣led from Syracusa, became of a King a Schoolmaster in the City of Corinth.