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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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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Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
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London :: Printed for J. Sprint ... and G. Conyers ...,
1697.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50811.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

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XVI.

To this purpose was the Answer of CHARLES V. Emperor, and King of Spain, at the Battel of Tunis. Who, be∣ing advised by the Marquess of Guasto to

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secure his Person, when the great Ord∣nance began to play, Marquess, said he, did you ever hear, that an Emperor was slain with a great Shot?

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