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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'Tis said of Pope Boniface VIII, that he came in like a Fox, reigned like a Lion, and died like a Dog. He came to the Papal Chair in 1295, and held it above se∣ven Years. During which he persecuted the Gibelline Faction, to the utmost of his Power. And they run so much in his head that, when the Arch-Bishop of Ge∣noua came before him upon Ash-Wednes∣day to receive the Ashes, according to the Custom of the Roman Church, instead of saying, Memento quòd Cinis es, & in Cine∣rem reverteris, the Words used in that Ce∣remony, he mistook the Point, and told him, Memento quòd Gibellinus es, & cum Gibellinis morieris.

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